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Vaporous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VA'POROUS, a.
1. Full of vapors or exhalations; as the vaporous air of valleys.
2. Vain; unreal; proceeding from the vapors.
3. Windy; flatulent; as, vaporous food is the most easily digested.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1527 1. consisting or characteristic of vapor 2. producing vapors ; volatile 3. containing or obscured by vapors ; misty 4. a. ethereal, unsubstantial b. consisting of or indulging in vaporings • vaporously adverb • vaporousness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vaporous Va"por*ous, a. [L. vaporosus: cf. vaporeux.] 1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. --Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. --Arbuthnot. 4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. Such vaporous speculations were inevitable. --Carlyle.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Foggy, vapory, full of vapor. 2. Unreal, unsubstantial, vain.

Moby Thesaurus

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