va·por·ous /ˈvep(ə)rəs/
(a.)霧狀的
Va·por·ous a.
1. Having the form or nature of vapor.
2. Full of vapors or exhalations.
The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. --Derham.
3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.
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.
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vaporous
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, gossamer, see-through,
sheer, transparent, cobwebby]
2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds"
[syn: vaporific, vaporish, vapourish]
3: filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog" [syn:
miasmal, miasmic]