Meaning of VAPOROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'veypehrus
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- [adj] filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog"
- [adj] resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds"
- [adj] so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
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| | Synonyms: | | cloudy, cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gaseous, gauzy, gossamer, miasmal, miasmic, see-through, sheer, thin, transparent, vaporific, vaporish, vapourish |
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| | Definition: | | \Va"por*ous\, a. [L. vaporosus: cf. vaporeux.]
1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland.
2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak.
The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys.
--Derham.
3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon.
The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is
the most easily digested. --Arbuthnot.
4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
Such vaporous speculations were inevitable.
--Carlyle.
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