va•por•ous
We found 9 definitions of vaporous from 4 different sources.
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vaporous - so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" | ||
diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vapourous, cobwebby | ||
thin lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | ||
vaporous - filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" | ||
miasmal, miasmic, vapourous | ||
cloudy (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" | ||
vaporous - resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" | ||
vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vapourous | ||
gaseous existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state" |