Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or turning to vapor.
- adjective Having the nature of vapor; vaporous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That converts or is capable of converting into steam or other vapor; exhaling in a volatile form, as fluids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry Producing
vapour ; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of vapor
- adjective (used of substances) capable of being volatilized
Etymologies
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Latin vapor vapor + facere to make.
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Examples
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The knock on modern poetry is that at best it's willfully obscure, at worst a con job - insulting, vaporific nonsense for intellectual poseurs who should just face facts: There never will be a poem as lovely as a tree.
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