vaporous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈveɪpəɹəs/|/ˈveɪpɹəs/    美 /ˈveɪpəɹəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
    — Hovv can darkneſſe be called a Maſſe? &c. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither.
  2. Breathing out or giving off vapour.
  3. Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
    — O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.
  4. Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
    — Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds / Along the pebbled shore of memory! / Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be / Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified / To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, / And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.
  5. Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague. figuratively
    — So vvhoſoeuer ſhall entertaine high and vapourous imaginations, in ſteede of a laborious and ſober inquiry of truth ſhall beget hopes and Beliefes of ſtrange and impoſſible ſhapes.
  6. Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy. figuratively
    — [A]irily-attired ladies were lounging upon the chairs in the gardens of the Tuileries; only the most fragile and vaporous bonnets were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne; […]
  7. Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.
    — The task at first daunted him, and he wailed to Mary that he could not write about the Florentines because he no longer enjoyed them as a school. Again Mary rescued him from his vaporous mood, and the two of them vigorously plunged into the new work.

词形变化

more vaporous comparative most vaporous superlative vapourous alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
nonvaporous vaporously vaporousness
相关词
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词源

From Middle English vaporous, from Late Latin vapōrōsus (“full of steam”), from Latin vapor (“exhalation; smoke; steam, vapour”) (possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (“to boil; to smoke, steam; aroma; strong odour”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is analysable as vapour + -ous. Possibly a doublet of hope.
Cognates
* French vaporeux (“misty, vaporous; filmy, transparent”)
* Italian vaporoso (“flimsy, gauzy; fluffy; vaporous”)
* Portuguese vaporoso
* Spanish vaporoso (“airy; vaporous”)
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