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vaporousness

/vey-per-uhs/US // ˈveɪ pər əs //UK // (ˈveɪpərəs) //

蒸腾性,蒸气性,蒸气,气态

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the form or characteristics of vapor: a vaporous cloud.
    • : full of or abounding in vapor; foggy; misty: a vaporous twilight.
    • : producing or giving off vapor: a vaporous bog.
    • : dimmed or obscured with vapor: a low valley surrounded by vaporous mountains.
    • : unsubstantial; diaphanous; airy: vaporous fabrics; vaporous breezes.
    • : vaguely formed, fanciful, or unreliable: vaporous promises.

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Examples

  • Benches formed from twisted branches, based on a design by Church, looked off into the vaporous vista.

  • A horse or a tree or a clump of brush loomed up grotesquely in the vaporous blur.

  • The peculiarity of these bodies is that they appear in most cases to be more or less completely vaporous.

  • His colouring is of an amazing softness, depth, and strength; his chiaroscuro is warm and vaporous.

  • A great mist overspread the Empire and men's minds were vaporous, nor was their purpose keen.

  • There is no medium in my life between the most vulgar realities and the most vaporous fiction, too thin to breathe.