vaporous
Other forms: vaporously
Vaporous means foggy, or made of gas. On a misty morning, the cool, vaporous air by the sea might send you back home for a raincoat.
In science, this adjective is used for gases, including the vaporous water detected in the atmosphere of a distant planet, or the invisible swirl of vaporous wax that hovers above a lit candle. When the air feels vaporous, it's either foggy or extremely humid. Something that seems to lack real substance can also be described this way, like your vaporous plan to bike across the U.S., quickly abandoned as you realized how difficult it would be.
Definitions of vaporous
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resembling or characteristic of vapor
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filled with vapor
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so thin as to transmit light“vaporous silks”
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synonyms:
cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vapourous
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thin
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
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thin
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