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vaporous

[ vey-per-uhs ]

adjective

  1. having the form or characteristics of vapor:

    a vaporous cloud.

  2. full of or abounding in vapor; foggy; misty:

    a vaporous twilight.

  3. producing or giving off vapor:

    a vaporous bog.

  4. dimmed or obscured with vapor:

    a low valley surrounded by vaporous mountains.

  5. unsubstantial; diaphanous; airy:

    vaporous fabrics; vaporous breezes.

  6. vaguely formed, fanciful, or unreliable:

    vaporous promises.



vaporous

/ ˈveɪpərəs; ˌveɪpəˈrɒsɪtɪ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈǰdzܲ, adverb
  • ˈǰdzܲԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • pǰ·dzܲ· adverb
  • pǰ·dzܲ·Ա ·ǰ·Dz··ٲ [vey-p, uh, -, ros, -i-tee], noun
  • ԴDzv·ǰ·Dzi·ٲ noun
  • ԴDz·pǰ·dzܲ adjective
  • non·pǰ·dzܲ· adverb
  • non·pǰ·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • ܲv·ǰ·Dzi·ٲ noun
  • ܲ·pǰ·dzܲ adjective
  • un·pǰ·dzܲ· adverb
  • un·pǰ·dzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of vaporous1

First recorded in 1520–30; vapor + -ous
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Example Sentences

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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.

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“Whatever’s wrong with me, I will take to bed,” Cain begins in a slow, vaporous falsetto.

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Loftus regarded so-called recovered memories as concoctions “spun not from solid facts but from the vaporous breezes of wishes, dreams, fears, desires.”

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"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.

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Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils.

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