单词 | vaporous |
释义 | vaporous (once / 9834 pages) adj WORD FAMILY vaporous: vaporously, vaporousness+/vapor: vaporing, vaporise, vaporish, vaporize, vaporous, vapors/vaporing: vaporings/vaporise: vaporisation, vaporised, vaporiser, vaporising/vaporish: vaporishly/vaporize: vaporizable, vaporization, vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, vaporizing/vaporizer: vaporizers USAGE EXAMPLESOur ancestors thought that “miasma”—the misty, vaporous stenches that waft from swampland—caused fatal diseases. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) Vaporous homilies about working together — one of President Obama’s specialties, and behold his legacy — only confuse the situation. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) Smith remembered Donald being a vaporous presence at those social occasions. The New Yorker(Aug 29, 2016) 1adj resembling or characteristic of vapor vaporous clouds Syn vaporific, vaporish, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous gaseous existing as or having characteristics of a gas 2adj filled with vapor a vaporous bog Syn miasmal, miasmic, vapourous cloudy full of or covered with clouds 3adj so thin as to transmit light vaporous silks Syn cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vapourous thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
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