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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective gaseous has 1 sense
- gaseous(a = adj.all) Array - existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state" Derived forms noun gas1, noun gas2, noun gaseousness1
Antonyms: liquid, solid
CIDE DICTIONARY
gaseous, a. [From Gas. Cf. F. gazeux.].
- In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid. [1913 Webster]
- Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. Sir J. Stephen. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
gaseous
adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimerical, cloud-built, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, fuming, fumy, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, watered, watered-down, windyROGET THESAURUS
gaseous
Gaseity
N gaseity, vaporousness, flatulence, flatulency, volatility, aeration, aerification, elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus, cloud, ammonia, ammoniacal gas, volatile alkali, vacuum, partial vacuum, pneumatics, pneumatostatics, aerostatics, aerodynamics, gasmeter, gasometer, air bladder, swimming bladder, sound, (of a fish), gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent.
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