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Adjective: vapoury vey-pu-ree Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: vapory)
- So thin as to transmit light
"a hat with a vapoury veil"; - diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], cobwebby, vapory [US] - Resembling or characteristic of vapour
"vapoury clouds"; - vaporific, vapourific [Brit, Cdn], vaporish [US], vapourish [Brit, Cdn], vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapory [US] - Filled with vapour
- miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapory [US] - [Brit, Cdn, archaic] Splenetic; peevish
- vapory [archaic]
See also: cloudy, gaseous, thin |