Vaporous

/ˈveɪpəɹəs/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
2. Breathing out or giving off vapour.
3. Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
4. Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
5. Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.
6. Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy.
7. Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.

Example Sentences

Hovv can darkneſſe be called a Maſſe? &c. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither.

For the great rock has screened the westering sun / That still on plains beyond streams vaporous gold / Among the branches; […]

The wind began to rise and soon the vapourous mist began to eddy and whirl in wild confusion.

O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.

[W]e ſee that the very aire it ſelfe is never conglaciate nor frozen, nor hardened, conſidering that miſts, fogs and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and thickenings of a moiſt and vapourous aire: for the true aire indeed vvhich hath no vapour at all and is altogether drie, admitteth no ſuch refrigeration as may alter it to that degree and heigth ^([sic]).

Beneath is spread like a green sea / The waveless plain of Lombardy, / Bounded by the vaporous air, / Islanded by cities fair; […]

[I]t applied itself lustily to the pipe and sent forth such abundant volleys of tobacco smoke that the small cottage kitchen became all vaporous.

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds / Along the pebbled shore of memory! / Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be / Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified / To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, / And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.

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• more vaporous
• most vaporous
• vapourous

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