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Adj.	1.	vapourous - 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" cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, vaporous, transparent, gossamer, sheer thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
	2.	vapourous - resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" vaporish, vapourish, vaporific, vaporous, vapourific gaseous - existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state"
	3.	vapourous - filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" miasmal, miasmic, vaporous cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"

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