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vaporous

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va·por·ous  (vpr-s)
adj.
1. Relating to or resembling vapor.
2.
a. Producing vapors; volatile.
b. Full of vapors.
3. Insubstantial, vague, or ethereal: "the imponderable mysterious and vaporous illusions of twilight" (John C. Powys). See Synonyms at airy.
4. Extravagantly fanciful; high-flown: vaporous conjecture.

vapor·osi·ty (vp-rs-t), vapor·ous·ness (-pr-s-ns) n.
vapor·ous·ly adv.

vaporous [ˈveɪpərəs]
adj
1. resembling or full of vapour
2. (Physics / General Physics) another word for vaporific
3. lacking permanence or substance; ephemeral or fanciful
4. given to foolish imaginings
5. dulled or obscured by an atmosphere of vapour
vaporously  adv
vaporousness , vaporosity [ˌveɪpəˈrɒsɪtɪ] n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.vaporousvaporous - 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"
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.vaporousvaporous - resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds"
gaseous - existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state"
3.vaporous - filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog"
cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"
Translations
vaporous [ˈveɪpərəs] ADJvaporoso
vaporous
adj
(= like vapour)dampfförmig; (= full of vapour)dunstig; (= of vapour)Dunst-; vaporous mists rising from the swampDünste, die aus dem Sumpf aufsteigen; vaporous gases round the planetnebelartige Gase um den Planeten
(liter: = fanciful) → nebulös, verblasen (geh)


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The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare.
Down from vague and vaporous heights, little ruffled zigzag milky currents came crawling, and found their way to the verge of one of those tremendous overhanging walls, whence they plunged, a shaft of silver, shivered to atoms in mid-descent and turned to an air puff of luminous dust.
A vaporous veil of mist seemed to have taken the place of the darkness.
 
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