tissue paper

1. 1.

   a soft thin (usually translucent) paper

   Synonymstissue

   Broaderpaper

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Questions about tissue paper

What does tissue paper mean?

tissue paper means "a soft thin (usually translucent) paper".

What is another word for tissue paper?

Close synonyms include tissue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tissue paper a common word?

tissue paper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.