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vaporous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective vaporous has 3 senses
- vaporous(s = adj.all) cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vapourous - so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
- vaporous(s = adj.all) vaporific, vaporish, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous - resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" Derived form noun vapor1
- vaporous(s = adj.all) miasmal, miasmic, vapourous - filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" Derived form noun vapor1
CIDE DICTIONARY
vaporous, a. [L. vaporosus: cf. F. vaporeux.].
- Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. [1913 Webster]
- Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. [1913 Webster]"The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys." [1913 Webster]
- Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. [1913 Webster]"The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested." [1913 Webster]
- Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. [1913 Webster]"Such vaporous speculations were inevitable." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
vaporous
adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, cloudy, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, foggy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, mushy, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantasmal, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vapory, watered, watered-down, windy, wispyROGET THESAURUS
vaporous
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.Bubble
N bubble; cloud, bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity, bubbling, frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, frothy, up, cloudy, thunderheaded, vaporous, nebulous, overcast, the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened lands.Opacity
N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.Turbidity
N turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity, nephelometer, turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, cloudy (cloud), smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.
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