Vapor

Quick meaning: Vapor is a noun meaning Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

Meaning

Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

More Meanings

1. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
2. (idiomatic) Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
3. (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
4. (transitive) To turn into vapor.
5. (dated) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
6. (archaic, in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
7. (obsolete) Wind; flatulence.

Example Sentences

I am at this present very sick of my little vapour of fame.

The press operates as a safety-valve for the vapor of popular ebullision.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.

Word Forms

• vapors
• vapour
• vaporing
• vapored

Synonyms for vapor

Depending on context, synonyms include vapour, evaporation, vaporization, vaporisation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evaporation, vaporization, vaporisation, vapour, mist, evaporative.

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