'Vaporous' definitions:
Definition of 'vaporous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous]
adjective
Definition of 'Vaporous'
From: GCIDE
- Vaporous \Va"por*ous\ (v[=a]"p[~e]r*[u^]s`), a. [L. vaporosus: cf. F. vaporeux.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. --Derham. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. [1913 Webster]
- Such vaporous speculations were inevitable. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vaporous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- wispy
Words containing 'Vaporous'
- Vapor,
- Vaporability,
- Vaporable,
- Vaporate,
- Vaporation,
- Vapored,
- Vaporer,
- Vaporing,
- Vaporingly,
- Vaporization,
- Vaporize,
- Vaporized,
- Vaporizer,
- Vaporizing,
- Vaporousness,
- vapors,
- Vapor bath,
- Vapor burner,
- Vapor density,
- Vapor engine,
- Vapor galvanizing,
- Vapor pressure,
- Vapor tension,
- Vaporer moth,
- Vaporizing surface,
- heat of vaporization,
- vapor lock,
- vapor trail,
- water vapor,
- mercury-vapor lamp,
- sodium-vapor lamp