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ADJECTIVE (3)

1. so thin as to transmit light;
- Example: "a hat with a diaphanous veil"
- Example: "filmy wings of a moth"
- Example: "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"
- Example: "gossamer cobwebs"
- Example: "sheer silk stockings"
- Example: "transparent chiffon"
- Example: "vaporous silks"
[syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]

2. resembling or characteristic of vapor;
- Example: "vaporous clouds"
[syn: vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous]

3. filled with vapor;
- Example: "miasmic jungles"
- Example: "a vaporous bog"
[syn: miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vaporous \Va"por*ous\ (v[=a]"p[~e]r*[u^]s`), a. [L. vaporosus: cf. F. vaporeux.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland. [1913 Webster] 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. --Derham. [1913 Webster] 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. [1913 Webster] Such vaporous speculations were inevitable. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vaporous adj 1: 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" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby] 2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous] 3: filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" [syn: miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaporous": adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, cloudy, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, foggy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, mushy, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantasmal, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vapory, watered, watered-down, windy, wispy