About The Word Vaporous
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Vaporous
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What's The Definition Of Vaporous?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Vaporous: cloudy | cobwebby | diaphanous | filmy | gaseous | gauzy | gossamer | miasmal | miasmic | see-through | sheer | thin | transparent | vaporific | vaporish | vapourish Related Terms | Find terms related to Vaporous: See Also | Vaporous In Webster's Dictionary \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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