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wisplike

a. Resembling a wisp or some aspect of one.

WordNet
wisplike

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: wispy]

Usage examples of "wisplike".

Beside and slightly behind him was a thin, tall, almost wisplike humanoid of a species I had never seen before.

This explains why the women you see in paintings have wisplike waists and figures too slight to fill out their clothes, and why you never see any plump or robust ones among them: they are there for visual rather than practical purposes.