vaporous

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

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”Synonyms: diaphanous filmy gauzy gauze-like gossamer see-through sheer transparent vapourous cobwebby
resembling or characteristic of vapor“vaporous clouds”Synonyms: vaporific vapourific vaporish vapourish vapourous
filled with vapor“miasmic jungles”“a vaporous bog”Synonyms: miasmal miasmic 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]