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Definitions: Vaporous |
VaporousAdjective1. 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". 2. Resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds". 3. Filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vaporous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Vaporous \Va"por*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression vaporosus: compare to vaporeux.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: VaporousSynonyms: cobwebby (adj), diaphanous (adj), filmy (adj), gauzy (adj), gossamer (adj), miasmal (adj), miasmic (adj), see-through (adj), sheer (adj), transparent (adj), vaporific (adj), vaporish (adj), vapourish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Cloudy. Noun: thunderheaded; vaporous, nebulous, overcast. |
Gaseity | Adjective: gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vaporous |
| English words defined with "vaporous": Fumid ♦ Halituous ♦ miasmal, miasmic ♦ Utricular ♦ Vaporiform, Vaporose, Vaporousness, Vapory ♦ water vapor, water vapour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vaporous": FIRE-PROTECTION ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN ♦ ISOTOPE-DILUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY ♦ Moon-drop. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They are not exhalations like our daily colloquies and vaporous breath. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Vaporous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vaporous" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vaporous | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vaporous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si avull, mjegullor (vapoury), i avullt. (various references) | |
Arabic | ضبابي (foggy, fuzziness, hazy, misty, nebulous, sloppy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нереален (aerial, aeriform, chimerical, fanciful, ideal, insubstantial, metaphysical, unreal, unsubstantial), мъглив (brumous, damp, dull, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, thick, vapory, vapoury), мимолетен (evanescent, evasive, fugacious, passing, short lived, swift, transient), летлив (essential, volatile), пълен с пара, парообразен (steamy, vapory, vapoury), парен (steam, steamy, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Chinese | '汽 (steam). (various references) | |
Czech | plný výparù. (various references) | |
Danish | gifttåge (vaporous poison gases). (various references) | |
French | vaporeux. (various references) | |
German | verblasen, nebulös (nebulous), gasförmig (aerially, gaseous, gasiform), dampfförmig. (various references) | |
Greek | γεμάτοσ ατμούσ, φανταστικόσ (fancied, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary), ατμώδησ (steamy, vaporish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ"ביל (foggy, steamy), א"י (misty, steamy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | párás (damp, hazy, smoky, steamy, vapourish). (various references) | |
Italian | vaporoso (diaphanous, diaphragmatic, filmy, limpid, transparent). (various references) | |
Manx | gaalagh (steaming, steamy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aporousvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaporoso (fun, steamy, vaporescense, vapourish, vapoury), semelhante a vapor, nevoento (foggy), nebuloso (cloudy, desolate, dismal, dreary, foggy, gaunt, gloomy, hazy, misty, mournful, nebulous). (various references) | |
Romanian | vaporos (aery, airy, ethereal, fluffy, gaseous, hazy, steamy, vapoury, woolly), uşor ca un abur, ireal (aerial, aeriform, cardboard, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, phantasmal, unreal), himeric (absurd, chimeric, chimerical, fantastic, fantastical, wildcat), ceţos (brumous, dim, dull, filmy, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, vague), aburos (foggy, hazy, Reeky, steam-engendering, steamy, vapoury), în formã de aburi. (various references) | |
Russian | парообразный (steamy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | parni (steam). (various references) | |
Spanish | vaporoso (hazily, hazy, steamy, vapourish, vapoury). (various references) | |
Swedish | vaporös, disig (fuzzy, hazy, misty), ångliknande. (various references) | |
Turkish | kuruntulu (gloomy, speculative), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane), hayalperest (day dreamer, dreamer, dreamy, escapist, fanciful, illusionist, imaginative, notional, quixotic, stargazer, visionary), buharlı (steamy, with steam power), buğulu (misted over, steamy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | туманний (brumous, damp, delphic, filmy, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, soupy, turbid, vapourish, vapoury), нереальний (aerial, aeriform, airy, delusive, delusory, imaginary, unreal, unsubstantial), пароподібний (steamy, vapoury). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nebulosa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vaporous": vaporously, vaporousness, vaporousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Vaporous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apodous, vaborous, vaporouos, vapourish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "vaporous" (pronounced 'Va"por*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous, Adipocerous, Adipogenous, Adipous, Adipsous, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Adulterous, Aduncous, Advantageous, Adventitious, Adventurous, Adversarious, Aeneous, Aeriferous, AEruginous, AEstuous, Aetheogamous, Affabrous, Affectuous, Agalactous, Agamous, Agatiferous, Agynous, Alacrious, Albugineous, Albuminiferous, Albuminiparous, Alburnous, Algous, Aliferous, Aligerous, Alimonious, Alkalious, Alliaceous, Allochroous, Allogamous, Allogeneous, Allomerous, Allonymous, Alluvious, Altisonous, Aluminiferous, Aluminous, Alutaceous, Amarantaceous, Amatorious, Ambaginous, Ambagious, Ambidextrous, Ambigenous, Ambiguous, Ambilevous, Ambiparous, Ambitious, Amentaceous, Amentiferous, Ammonitiferous, Amnigenous, Amoebous, Amorous, Amorphous, Amphibious, Amphibolous, Amphigamous, Amphigenous, Amphigonous, Amphipodous, Amphistomous, Ampullaceous, Amurcous, Amyelous, Amygdalaceous, Amygdaliferous, Amylaceous, Amyous, Anacanthous, Anacardiaceous, Anachronous, Anadromous, Analogous, Anandrous, Anantherous, Ananthous, Anarthropodous, Anarthrous, Anasarcous, Anatiferous, Androcephalous, Andropetalous, Androphagous, Androtomous, androus, Anemorphilous, Anenterous, Anfractuous, Angiocarpous, Angiomonospermous, Angiospermatous, Angiospermous, Angiosporous, Angiostomous, Anguineous, Angulous, Anhelous, Anhistous, Anhydrous, Anisodactylous, Anisomerous, Anisopetalous, Anisophyllous, Anisostemonous, Anisotropous, Annelidous, Annotinous, Annoyous, Anodynous, Anomaloflorous, Anomalous, Anomophyllous, Anonaceous, Anonymous, Anserous, Antecedaneous, Antenniferous, Antheriferous, Antherogenous, Anthocarpous, Anthophagous, Anthophilous, Anthophorous, Anthraciferous, Anthropomorphous, Anthropophagous, Antibillous, Anticontagious, Anticous, Antidromous, Antilogous, Antimonious, Antipathous, Antipetalous, Antisepalous, Antistrumous, Antitypous, Antivariolous, Anurous, Anxious, Apellous, Apetalous, Aphanipterous, Aphidivorous, Aphidophagous, Aphthous, Aphyllous, Apiaceous, Apocarpous, Apodous, Apostematous, Aproctous, Apterous, Apyrous, Aqueous, Aquiferous, Aquiparous, Araceous, Araneous, Arbitrarious, Arboreous, Arborous, Archaeostomatous, Arduous, Ardurous, Arenaceous, Arenarious, Arenulous, Argentiferous, Argentous, Argillaceous, Argilliferous, Argillo-calcareous, Argillous, Armiferous, Armigerous, Aromatous, Arrenotokous, Arreptitious, Arseniferous, Arsenious, Artificious, Artiodactylous, Arundiferous, Arundinaceous, Arundineous, Asbestous, Ascigerous, Ascititious, Asclepiadaceous, Ascriptitious, Asomatous, Asparaginous, Aspermatous, Aspermous, Asperous, Assassinous, Assiduous, Astriferous, Astucious, Asymmetrous, asynchronous, Athalamous, Atheous, Athermanous, Athermous, Atheromatous, Atokous, Atrabilious, Atramentaceous, Atramentarious, Atrocious, Atropous, Atrous, Attiguous, Audacious, Augurous, Auntrous, Aurantiaceous, Aurichalceous, Auriferous, Aurivorous, Aurocephalous, Aurous, Auspicious, Autocephalous, Autoecious, Autogamous, Automatous, Autonomous, Avaricious, Avarous, Avenaceous, Avenious, Avidious, Azotous, Azureous, Azygous, Azymous, Bacciferous, Baccivorous, Balaniferous, Balsamiferous, Balsamous, Barbarous, Barbigerous, Barratrous, Basylous, Batrachophagous, Battailous, Beauteous, Bellicous, benevolous, Biangulous, Biantheriferous, Bibacious, Bibulous, Bicephalous, Bicipitous, Bifarious, Biferous, Biforous, Bifurcous, Bigamous, Bignoniaceous, Bijugous, Biliferous, Bilinguous, Bilious, Bimanous, Binominous, Binotonous, Binous, Biparous, Bipetalous, Biramous, Bisexous, Bisexuous, Bismuthiferous, Bismuthous, Bisulcous, Bituminiferous, Bituminous, Bivalvous, Bivious, Blasphemous, Blastocarpous, Blendous, Blennogenous, Blusterous, Blustrous, Boisterous, Boistous, Bombycinous, Bombylious, Boracous, Boraginaceous, Boragineous, Bounteous, Brachypterous, Brachytypous, Branchiferous, Branchiostegous, Brassicaceous, Bromeliaceous, Brumous, Bulbaceous, Bulbiferous, Bulbous, Bumptious, Burdenous, Burglarious, Butyraceous, Butyrous, Buxeous, Byssaceous, Byssiferous, Cactaceous, Cadaverous, Caducous, Caesious, Calamiferous, Calamitous, Calcareo-siliceous, Calcareous, Calcariferous, Calciferous, Calcigenous, Calcigerous, Calcivorous, Calculous, Caliginous, Callous, Calumnious, Campanulaceous, Camphoraceous, Campylospermous, Campylotropous, Cancellous, Cankerous, Canorous, Cantankerous. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-o-p-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: vapours. | |
-2 letters: parous, parvos, porous, sapour, savour, upsoar, vapors, vapour. | |
-3 letters: arvos, parvo, pours, praos, praus, proas, proso, roups, sapor, savor, sopor, spoor, supra, vapor, varus. | |
-4 letters: arvo, avos, oars, oops, opus, osar, ours, pars, poor, pour, prao, prau, proa, pros, purs, raps, rasp, roup, soap, soar, sora, soup, sour, spar, spur, sura, upas, ursa, vars, vaus. | |
-5 letters: ars, asp, avo, oar, ops, ora, ors, our, ova, par, pas, pro, pur, pus, rap, ras, sap, sau, sop, sou, spa, sup, upo, ups, var, vas, vau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-o-p-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: oviparous. | |
+2 letters: vaporously. | |
+3 letters: avoirdupois. | |
+4 letters: provocateurs, vaporousness. | |
+5 letters: avoirdupoises, overpopulates, ovoviviparous, photogravures. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 70 6F 72 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a p o r o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0070 006F 0072 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667828184818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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