vaporous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vaporous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vaporous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vaporous adj 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(s): diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" Synonym(s): vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" Synonym(s): miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaporous \Va"porous\, a. [L. vaporosus: cf. vaporeux.] 1. Having the form or nature of vapor. --Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. --Shak. The warmer and more vaporous* air of the valleys. --Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. --Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. --Arbuthnot. 4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical. Such vaporous speculations were inevitable. --Carlyle.