[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

papery \pa"pery\ p=a"p~ery^, a.
   like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.
   --gray.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

papery
     adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests
            of papery material"
     2: of or like paper syn: chartaceous, paperlike
see also:
chartaceous paperlike 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

90 moby thesaurus words for "papery":
   airy, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle,
   cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak,
   desiccated, diaphanous, diluted, dried-up, effeminate, emaciated,
   ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail,
   frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer,
   gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light,
   lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, parchmenty, pasteboardy, puny,
   rare, rarefied, sere, shattery, shriveled, shrunken, sissified,
   sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish,
   slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin,
   thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike,
   unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, wasted, watered, watered-down,
   watery, weak, willowy, wilted, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizened,
   womanish, wrinkled, , 

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