Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: cloudy, cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gaseous, gauzy, gossamer, miasmal, miasmic, see-through, sheer, thin, transparent, vaporific, vaporish, vapourish

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