gauzy

Etymology

gauze + -y

adj

1. Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
   Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185
2. (figurative) light; giving the effect of haze
3. (figurative) vague or elusive
   Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service? 2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown
4. (figurative) tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic
   2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003