Definitions

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  • adjective Alternative form of vaporous.

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  • adjective resembling or characteristic of vapor
  • adjective filled with vapor
  • adjective so thin as to transmit light

Etymologies

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vapour +‎ -ous

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Examples

  • I tested the temperature with a puff of breath over the edge of the bedspread, and watched in horror as a vapourous cloud rose toward the ceiling.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love Jack Canfield 2009

  • I tested the temperature with a puff of breath over the edge of the bedspread, and watched in horror as a vapourous cloud rose toward the ceiling.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love Jack Canfield 2009

  • Then on a cloudless and windless day, they will huff and puff away the complete text of Ovid's Metamorphoses — the epic poem translated into vapourous morse code.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • But all this vapourous bleating has given me an idea.

    Archive 2008-03-01 CC 2008

  • Then on a cloudless and windless day, they will huff and puff away the complete text of Ovid's Metamorphoses — the epic poem translated into vapourous morse code.

    Vapour City 2006

  • Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

  • Every now and then the great white vapourous mass twitched as a French round shot or shell punched through.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • _Vestiges_ inculcate, that man, with his sentiment and intellect, his powers and passions, his will and conscience, were also produced as the ultimate result of vapourous condensation?

    An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

  • It lets in a flood of moonlight, and the glimmering vision of the vapourous green-lit nocturnal Spring-world.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Not until the dawn of that morrow whitened the sky and drew from the vapourous plain the first far towers of Med, the King's City, did St. George say good night to her glimmering windows.

    Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

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