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vaporous

[vey-per-uhs] / ˈveɪ pər əs /
ADJECTIVE
foggy
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
fanciful
Synonyms


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It switches between a ghostly, vaporous beat and a hectic middle passage filled with sampled and pitched-up voices and clattering percussion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Hope needed a name and a shape, and what followed was anything but vaporous feelings.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2024

"We let the biology do the harder job of converting information about vaporous chemicals into an electrical neural signal," Raman said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024

The two-dimensional picture seen on the entry flat screen now pops into a vaporous three-dimensional illusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023

Mr. Iii was a tall, vaporous, thin man with thick blind blue crystals over his yellowish eyes.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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