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Meanings of vaporific in English

(Used of substances) capable of being volatilized.

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Resembling or characteristic of vapor.

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Examples for "vaporous"
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On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
Basil
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A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography
4
The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
5
The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
The Magician
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If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
2
The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1...
3
A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.
Amelia — Volume 1
4
I feel sad at times, and vapourish.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
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In it I acquainted her with the house I was about taking; and with Mrs. Fretchville's vapourish delays.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4
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Garman's was the victory, the victory of bitter knowledge over the vaporish ideals of youth.
The Plunderer
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Far off across the glittering ocean of sand and alkali a yellowish cloud-almostvaporish, arose.
The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
3
No wonder the political writing in the press seems to us vaporish and without definite aims.
Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
4
It is not a thin, vaporish flat, without depth or density; and its circumference exceeds that of the earth.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
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A vaporish place, too delicate and subtle for such fun-loving, corpulent specimens of the Creator's wisdom as old Jack Falstaff.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
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But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
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Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
Three Margarets
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Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passeng...
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I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
Manalive
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We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.
Daisy