Synonyms: faint, shadowy, dim, vague, wispy
Definition: lacking clarity or distinctness
Usage: a dim figure in the distance; only a faint recollection; shadowy figures in the gloom; saw a vague outline of a building through the fog; a few wispy memories of childhood
Similar words: indistinct
Definition: not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand
Usage: indistinct shapes in the gloom; an indistinct memory; only indistinct notions of what to do
Definition: thin and weak
Usage: a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet- Edmund Wilson
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare