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# wispy

«wispy» in Mova's school dictionary: **thin, light and fine, in small loose strands, like thin…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wispy, wispier, wispiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Wispy means thin, light and fine, in small loose strands, like thin wisps of hair, cloud or smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on clouds, high wispy clouds are cirrus clouds, made of ice crystals. In stories and description, wispy hair or a wispy beard is thin and soft; wispy smoke drifts from a chimney. Phrases: «wispy clouds», «wispy hair», «wispy smoke», «wispy beard».

### examples

- Wispy clouds streaked across the blue sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#x1)
- The baby had wispy blond hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#x2)
- Wispy smoke rose from the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#x3)
- The old wizard had a long, wispy beard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#x4)
- High, wispy clouds are called cirrus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#x5)
- Wispy grass waved in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/#x6)

### note

Adjective from «wisp» (a thin strand) + «-y». Comparative «wispier». Often used for clouds, hair and smoke.

### In the corpora

- [Cirrus clouds are thin wispy clouds of ice high in the sky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wispy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wispy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.