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Vapourous

adjective
1.
So thin as to transmit light.  Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous.  "Filmy wings of a moth" , "Gauzy clouds of dandelion down" , "Gossamer cobwebs" , "Sheer silk stockings" , "Transparent chiffon" , "Vaporous silks"
2.
Resembling or characteristic of vapor.  Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish.
3.
Filled with vapor.  Synonyms: miasmal, miasmic, vaporous.  "A vaporous bog"






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"Vapourous" Quotes from Famous Books



... tongue does one pray to God in language addressed to a lover in the outpourings of adultery? Without doubt they will tell us it is local colour, and excuse it on the ground that a vapourous, romantic woman does nothing, even in religion, like anybody else. There is no local colour which can excuse this mixture! Voluptuous one day, religious the next, there is no woman, even in other countries, under the sky ...
— The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert • Various



Words linked to "Vapourous" :   gaseous, thin, cloudy



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