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Adjective: vapoury  vey-pu-ree
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: vapory)
  1. 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]
     
  2. Resembling or characteristic of vapour
    "vapoury clouds";
    - vaporific, vapourific [Brit, Cdn], vaporish [US], vapourish [Brit, Cdn], vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapory [US]
     
  3. Filled with vapour
    - miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapory [US]
     
  4. [Brit, Cdn, archaic] Splenetic; peevish
    - vapory [archaic]

See also: cloudy, gaseous, thin