vaporous

vaporous
    adj 1: 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}]
    2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds"
       [syn: {vaporific}, {vapourific}, {vaporish}, {vapourish},
       {vaporous}, {vapourous}]
    3: filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" [syn:
       {miasmal}, {miasmic}, {vaporous}, {vapourous}]
    

Vaporous \Va"por*ous\ (v[=a]"p[~e]r*[u^]s`), a. [L. vaporosus:
   cf. F. vaporeux.]
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   1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland.
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   2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak.
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            The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys.
                                                  --Derham.
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   3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon.
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            The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is
            the most easily digested.             --Arbuthnot.
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   4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
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            Such vaporous speculations were inevitable.
                                                  --Carlyle.
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79 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wispy