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Vaporous

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Adjective

1. cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous

so thin as to transmit light

Example Sentences:
'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'

2. vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous

resembling or characteristic of vapor

Example Sentences:
'vaporous clouds'

3. miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous

filled with vapor

Example Sentences:
'miasmic jungles'
'a vaporous bog'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Vaporous

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adjective
1. 
resembling or full of vapour
2.  another word for vaporific
3. 
lacking permanence or substance; ephemeral or fanciful
4. 
given to foolish imaginings
5. 
dulled or obscured by an atmosphere of vapour

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Vaporous

see synonyms of vaporous
adjective
1. 
giving off or forming vapor
2. 
full of vapor; foggy; misty
3. 
like, having the nature of, or characteristic of vapor
4. 
a. 
fleeting, unsubstantial, fanciful, etc.
said of things, ideas, etc.
b. 
given to such ideas or talk

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Vaporous

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adj.
1. Relating to or resembling vapor: "They saw wild horses racing on the plain ... leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust" (Cormac McCarthy).
2.
a. Producing vapors; volatile.
b. Full of vapors.
3. Insubstantial, vague, or ethereal: "the imponderable mysterious and vaporous illusions of twilight" (John C. Powys).
4. Extravagantly fanciful; high-flown: vaporous conjecture.

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