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Type Words
Synonyms vaporific, vaporish, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous
Derivation vapor


vaporous clouds.
Type Words
Synonyms miasmal, miasmic, vapourous
Derivation vapor


a vaporous bog.
Type Words
Synonyms cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vapourous


vaporous silks.

Examples of vaporous

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That's why we should punish crimes, not the vaporous intentions that lead to them.
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It's vaporous, and I don't mean like the spirit that transcends this material world.
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Every now and then they would both produce loud grunts and great vaporous exhalations.
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Only in recent years has the vaporous form of the chemical been recognized as a threat.
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There is other water in the Milky Way, but it is frozen and not vaporous.
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He doesn't believe anything much, except his vaporous progressive ideals.
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Music from France often gets labeled as vaporous, perfumed abstraction.
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Beyond lies a field of grasses and brightly-hued flowers beneath a frosty, vaporous sky.
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As its name would imply, definitions of this technology can be vaporous.
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More examples
  • Diaphanous: 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"
  • Vaporific: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds"
  • Miasmal: filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog"
  • (vaporousness) haziness: cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor
  • Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial
  • (vaporousness) The condition of being vaporous