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Wordnet 3.0

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]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vapourous
    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]