Definition of "semiopaque" []

• Partially opaque. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds -- of creatures, of material, of flora -- that only our imaginations can rightly access."
• "It is made of more than a thousand semiopaque windows set into an elegant steel grid."
• "Most Chinese buildings are aggressively alien: concrete structures with brilliant blue, semiopaque windows."