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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Suggestive of or resembling vapor.
  • adjective Archaic Affected by the vapors; given to spells of hysteria or low spirits.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in vapors; vaporous in a physical sense: as, a vaporish cave.
  • Affected by vapors; hypochondriac; dejected; splenetic; whimsical; hysterical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of vapors; vaporous.
  • adjective Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of vapourish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling or characteristic of vapor

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Examples

  • He looked about and found himself surrounded by mysterious vaporish bodies that wove about and embraced him in gentle coolness.

    Mist Men of Mercury Dave Tackett 2008

  • He looked about and found himself surrounded by mysterious vaporish bodies that wove about and embraced him in gentle coolness.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Dave Tackett 2008

  • One sniff of that love potion had left me feeling vaporish for nearly an hour.

    Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006

  • His physician, Dr. — —, as I am told, had, very ignorantly, checked a coming fit of the gout, and scattered it about his body; and it fell particularly upon his nerves, so that he continues exceedingly vaporish; and would neither see nor speak to anybody while he was here.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Here on the higher ground, the river fog had thinned to a mere vaporish white cast to the sky.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • Empty-headed, vaporish girls had made him feel more masculine and virile, he supposed.

    An Unacceptable Offer Balogh, Mary 1988

  • It is not a thin, vaporish flat, without depth or density; and its circumference exceeds that of the earth.

    Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn

  • 'Whenever I find myself growing vaporish I rouse myself, wash and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoe-strings neatly, and, in fact, adonize, as if I were going out -- then all clean and comfortable, I sit down to write.

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • The smoke of these villainous little pipes, continually ascending in a cloud about the nose, penetrated into and befogged the cerebellum, dried up all the kindly moisture of the brain, and rendered the people who used them as vaporish and testy as the governor himself.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • A vaporish place, too delicate and subtle for such fun-loving, corpulent specimens of the Creator's wisdom as old Jack Falstaff.

    Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn

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