Vaporous \Va"por*ous\ (v[=a]"p[~e]r*[u^]s`), a. [L. vaporosus:
cf. F. vaporeux.]
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1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland.
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2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak.
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The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys.
--Derham.
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3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon.
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The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is
the most easily digested. --Arbuthnot.
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4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
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Such vaporous speculations were inevitable.
--Carlyle.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vaporous
adj 1: 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"
[syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through,
sheer, transparent, cobwebby]
2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds"
[syn: vaporific, vaporish, vapourish]
3: filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" [syn:
miasmal, miasmic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaporous":
adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built,
airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born,
cloud-built, cloud-woven, cloudy, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike,
ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, foggy,
fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy,
gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal,
miasmatic, miasmic, misty, mushy, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic,
phantasmal, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky,
shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy,
subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact,
uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporing, vaporish,
vaporlike, vapory, watered, watered-down, windy, wispy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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