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va⋅por⋅ous

  [vey-per-uhs]
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–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.
Origin:
1520–30; vapor + -ous

Related forms:
va⋅por⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
va⋅por⋅ous⋅ness, va⋅por⋅os⋅i⋅ty  [vey-puh-ros-i-tee] , noun
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va·por·ous   (vā'pər-əs)   
adj.  
  1. Relating to or resembling vapor.
    1. Producing vapors; volatile.
    2. Full of vapors.
  3. Insubstantial, vague, or ethereal: "the imponderable mysterious and vaporous illusions of twilight" (John C. Powys). See Synonyms at airy.
  4. Extravagantly fanciful; high-flown: vaporous conjecture.
va'por·os'i·ty (vā'pə-rŏs'ĭ-tē), va'por·ous·ness (-pər-əs-nĭs) n., va'por·ous·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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