Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word VAPOROUS

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Definitions of VAPOROUS

1. Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
2. Breathing out or giving off vapour.
3. Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
4. Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
5. Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.
6. (figuratively)

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Examples of Using VAPOROUS in a Sentence

• It acquires a sweet, earthy scent as it ages, commonly likened to the fragrance of isopropyl alcohol without the vaporous chemical astringency.
• Stephanie Zacharek considered him to be a "character who squirms right out of our grasp", and despite being the movie's anchor, he's "such a vaporous one, he leaves us feeling adrift".
• " James Oldham of NME liked the music, saying: "Soused in acoustic guitar'd empathy, with a vaporous keyboard motif inescapably reminiscent of Duran Duran's 'Save a Prayer', 'She's in Fashion' is a balmy, barmy beaut, shimmering grooves turning a blithe eye to the world.
• During performances, "cascading vaporous rainbows" danced across the venue's interior LED screen, according to Pollstars Andy Gensler.
• To reassure Peterson fans worried about scant solo time for their hero, the pianist lays down a healthy number of extended runs, unobtrusively shadowing Webster's vaporous tone and supple phrasing along the way.
• But Leichtentritt describes its sound effect as the "murmuring and blowing of a gentle wind", French pianist Alfred Cortot (1877–1962) mentions its "gliding and vaporous character" and Alfredo Casella talks about a "character of swift, aerial and unsubstantial mysteriousness".
• Aristotle previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Avicenna modified into the theory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on by Albert of Saxony in the 14th century and accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 16th century.
• The air reportedly "grew dim with the vaporous exhalations of a smoky haze rising from an unknown source, and gleamed with a dull radiance".
• ludicrously gorgeous, vaporous, and reverb-caressed, like the hushed, almost unbearable intimacy of pre-fame Cat Power.
• Human lives are as vaporous as clouds or untuned lyres that, discarded, have become like an Aeolian harp that is susceptible to every passing wind gust.
• Gajadhar characterized the painting as "a map of the psyche, the vaporous interior realm where thought and emotion fall weightlessly and vertiginously, tumbling out of the unknown past into the knowable future".
• Rorem's score makes a few brusquely dramatic gestures (timpani obbligatos, for instance, in movements entitled Toccata-Chaconne and Toccata-Rondo), but in the main it relies on the kind of anonymous, vaporous lyricism that characterizes so much of his instrumental work.

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