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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 Word Forms
- vaporously adverb
- vaporousness noun
- vaporosity noun
- nonvaporosity noun
- nonvaporous adjective
- nonvaporously adverb
- nonvaporousness noun
- unvaporosity noun
- unvaporous adjective
- unvaporously adverb
- unvaporousness noun
- ˈǰdzܲ adverb
- ˈǰdzܲԱ 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.
“ever’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.”
"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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