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vaporous
[vey-per-uhs]
adjective
having the form or characteristics of vapor.
a vaporous cloud.
full of or abounding in vapor; foggy; misty.
a vaporous twilight.
producing or giving off vapor.
a vaporous bog.
dimmed or obscured with vapor.
a low valley surrounded by vaporous mountains.
unsubstantial; diaphanous; airy.
vaporous fabrics; vaporous breezes.
vaguely formed, fanciful, or unreliable.
vaporous promises.
vaporous
/ ˈveɪpərəs, ˌveɪpəˈrɒsɪtɪ /
adjective
resembling or full of vapour
another word for vaporific
lacking permanence or substance; ephemeral or fanciful
given to foolish imaginings
dulled or obscured by an atmosphere of vapour
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
- ˈ±¹²¹±è´Ç°ù´Ç³Ü²õ±ô²â adverb
- ˈ±¹²¹±è´Ç°ù´Ç³Ü²õ²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
Example Sentences
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.
“Whatever’s wrong with me, I will take to bed,†Cain begins in a slow, vaporous falsetto.
Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.â€
"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.
Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils.
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