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Definition of vaporous : 1. Full of vapors or exhalations.
2. Having the form or nature of vapor.
3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.
4. Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.

Synonyms:

right-down, thin, crystalline, volatilisable, bluff, evaporable, limpid, volatilizable, vapourish, thick, vaporizable, haze, imaginary, smoggy, misty, out-and-out, guileless, unmixed, bold, gauzy, gossamer, miasmal, vaporific, gauze-like, gossamery, pellucid, downright, absolute, vaporish, aery, vapourific, unsubstantial, sheer, see through, cloudy, vapory, vapourous, ethereal, aerial, filmy, cobwebby, plain, lucid, crystal clear, mephitic, diaphanous, transparent, rank, unmingled, vapourisable, fleeting

breezy, atmospheric, climactic, immaterial, windy, airy

miasmic, reeky, steamy, rarefied, gaseous

Usage examples:

• Pierre and Guillaume paused in the Rue St. Eleuthere, and gazed at the vaporous, tremulous city spread out below then. - "Paris From the "Three Cities"", Emile Zola.
• Beneath us lies always the immense blue background: Nagasaki illumined by moonlight, and the expanse of silvered, glittering water, which seems like a vaporous vision suspended in mid- air. - "Madame Chrysantheme Complete", Pierre Loti Last Updated: March 4, 2009.
• And as he spoke they emerged from the green oblong, bordered by low yew edges, from which as from a flat and spacious shelf carved out of the hill, Monk Lawrence surveyed the slopes below it, the clustered village, the middle distance with its embroidery of fields and trees, with the vaporous stretches of the forest beyond, and in the far distance, a shining line of sea. - "Delia Blanchflower", Mrs. Humphry Ward.