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vaporous

[vey-per-uhs]

adjective

  1. having the form or characteristics of vapor.

    a vaporous cloud.

  2. full of or abounding in vapor; foggy; misty.

    a vaporous twilight.

  3. producing or giving off vapor.

    a vaporous bog.

  4. dimmed or obscured with vapor.

    a low valley surrounded by vaporous mountains.

  5. unsubstantial; diaphanous; airy.

    vaporous fabrics; vaporous breezes.

  6. vaguely formed, fanciful, or unreliable.

    vaporous promises.



vaporous

/ ˈveɪpərəs, ˌveɪpəˈrɒsɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. resembling or full of vapour

  2. 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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • vaporously adverb
  • vaporousness noun
  • vaporosity noun
  • nonvaporosity noun
  • nonvaporous adjective
  • nonvaporously adverb
  • nonvaporousness noun
  • unvaporosity noun
  • unvaporous adjective
  • unvaporously adverb
  • unvaporousness noun
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  • ˈ±¹²¹±è´Ç°ù´Ç³Ü²õ²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of vaporous1

First recorded in 1520–30; vapor + -ous
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Example Sentences

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In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists†became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog†and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,†creating an extraordinary sonic vista.

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“Whatever’s wrong with me, I will take to bed,†Cain begins in a slow, vaporous falsetto.

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Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.â€

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"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.

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Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils.

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