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lacy

lacy

1 3.2
Made of thin cloth with small open patterns
  • adjective
  • /ˈleɪsi/
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  • There she was in a nice, clean, crisp, lacy blouse.
  • lacy white
  • lacy dress
  • lacy and delicate

Oh my God, it's so nice and soft and I own a black Lacy dress now.

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Examples

  • It was made of very high-quality material and had an extremely elaborate, lacy trim that was literally six inches wide all the way around.

    Blog text (1)
  • Now this is like a Lacy, really gorgeous top.

  • Oh my God, it's so nice and soft and I own a black Lacy dress now.

  • And one of the things I have is just this like pink Lacy wrap.

  • I got this nice blue color with this adorable cream like Lacy ruffle detail.

  • Like it's very wispy and Lacy and has these sleeves and I just absolutely love it.

  • They're just like sheer floral, Lacy, sexy burgundy.

  • She had dressed for dinner: a narrow white wool skirt beneath a delicate, lacy top with a row of tiny ribbons around the throat.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • This lacy, silky, sheer chemise (if you aren't wearing the glitch layers) left me speechless the second I tried it on.

    Blog text (8)
  • She wore a lacy dress to the party that made her look elegant and stylish.

Synonyms

filigreed
vslacy
1 8.5

Thin, detailed patterns like fine metalwork or lace cover the surface

focuses on delicate open textile pattern rather than metalwork ornament
lacelike
vslacy
5.2

Having a thin, delicate pattern of many small holes

is the same meaning but expressed in an alternative adjective form
guipure
vslacy
9.9

Made of heavy open lace with no net background

emphasizes a lighter and more delicate open pattern than this form
netlike
vslacy
4.9

Having many small open spaces between thin crossing lines

is about delicate intricate textile patterns rather than general net structures
netted
vslacy
4.4

Material with thin threads and many small holes

focuses on fine ornamental open patterns rather than plain mesh
weblike
vslacy
5.2

Having thin threads that form a net like a spider's web

is more about delicate textile artistry than generic web shapes
webby
vslacy
7.4

Having many thin connected threads like a spider's web

emphasizes fine, intricate open patterns rather than rough web appearance

Antonyms

208 1.0

Simple and not decorated or flavored

26 3.7

A surface like sand or rough cloth that has large grains and is not smooth

How Intricate

intricate
73 6.7
lacy
1 3.2
patterned
1 3.4
plain
50 2.5

Surface Forms

lacy positive
lacier comparative
laciest superlative

Morphology

lacy = lace (transparent) = lace + y

The suffix '-y' is commonly used to form adjectives meaning 'having the quality of' the noun.

Etymology

Lacy comes from the word lace, which at first meant a 'noose' or 'string' used to tie things and later came to mean fine threads tied into a delicate, open pattern. So lacy describes something made of that delicate 'open pattern' or that looks like delicate lace.