vaporous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: va=por=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

vaporous, a. [L. vaporosus: cf. F. vaporeux.].

•  Having the form or nature of vapor.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  Full of vapors or exhalations.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys."  [1913 Webster]
•  Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

  "The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested."  [1913 Webster]
•  Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.  [1913 Webster]

  "Such vaporous speculations were inevitable."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

vaporous

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.

Bubble

N bubble; cloud, bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity, bubbling, frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, frothy, up, cloudy, thunderheaded, vaporous, nebulous, overcast, the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened lands.

Opacity

N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.

Turbidity

N turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity, nephelometer, turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, cloudy (cloud), smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.