VAPOUROUS

• (adj.) filled with vapor

  "miasmic jungles", "a vaporous bog"

  synonyms : miasmal , miasmic , vaporous

• (adj.) resembling or characteristic of vapor

  "vaporous clouds"

  synonyms : vaporific , vaporish , vaporous , vapourific , vapourish

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : cobwebby , diaphanous , filmy , gauze-like , gauzy , gossamer , see-through , sheer , transparent , vaporous

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