Vaporous

Quick meaning: Vaporous is an adjective meaning Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• vapourous

Synonyms for vaporous

Depending on context, synonyms include halitous, halituous, vaporiform, vaporlike, vapourlike, vaporose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vapourish, vapourous, vaporish, vaporific, gaseous, cloudy.

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