gaseous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: gas=e=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

gaseous, a. [From Gas. Cf. F. gazeux.].

•  In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.  Sir J. Stephen.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gaseous, adj. of or like gas.

Derivative

gaseousness n.

THESAURUS

gaseous

adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimerical, cloud-built, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, fuming, fumy, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, watered, watered-down, windy

ROGET THESAURUS

gaseous

Gaseity

N gaseity, vaporousness, flatulence, flatulency, volatility, aeration, aerification, elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus, cloud, ammonia, ammoniacal gas, volatile alkali, vacuum, partial vacuum, pneumatics, pneumatostatics, aerostatics, aerodynamics, gasmeter, gasometer, air bladder, swimming bladder, sound, (of a fish), gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent.