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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety;
- Example: "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
[syn: finespun, delicate]

2. developed in excessively fine detail;
- Example: "finespun distinctions"
[syn: finespun, hairsplitting]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Finespun \Fine"spun`\, a. Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

finespun adj 1: developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" [syn: finespun, delicate] 2: developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions" [syn: finespun, hairsplitting]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "finespun": airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, downy, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, hairline, hairsplitting, insubstantial, lacy, light, misty, nice, papery, pubescent, rare, rarefied, refined, satin, satiny, silky, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smooth, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy