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vaporous a. 雾状的 雾状的 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" [ synonym: { diaphanous}, { filmy}, { gauzy}, { gauze- like}, { gossamer}, { see- through}, { sheer}, { transparent}, { vaporous}, { vapourous}, { cobwebby}] 2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; " vaporous clouds" [ synonym: { vaporific}, { vapourific}, { vaporish}, { vapourish}, { vaporous}, { vapourous}] 3: filled with vapor; " miasmic jungles"; " a vaporous bog" [ synonym: { miasmal}, { miasmic}, { vaporous}, { vapourous}] 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] 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
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