diaphanous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
    — The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
  2. Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
    — 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169, The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
  3. Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.

词形变化

more diaphanous comparative most diaphanous superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
adiaphanous semidiaphanous undiaphanous
相关词
diaphanously diaphanousness

词源

From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, appear”).
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