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Adjective: vapourous
Usage: Brit, non-standard
  1. So thin as to transmit light
    "a hat with a vapourous veil";
    - diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby, vapoury [Brit, Cdn], vapory [US]
     
  2. Resembling or characteristic of vapour
    "vapourous clouds";
    - vaporific, vapourific [Brit, Cdn], vaporish [US], vapourish [Brit, Cdn], vaporous, vapoury [Brit, Cdn], vapory [US]
     
  3. Filled with vapour
    "vapourous jungles";
    - miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapoury [Brit, Cdn], vapory [US]

See also: cloudy, gaseous, thin

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