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Meanings of vapourous in English

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Filled with vapor.

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So thin as to transmit light.

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Examples for "miasmic"
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He will measure my words and calculate that I am miasmic.
Seraphina
2
The goblet of wine left behind a miasmic trail, like a miniature comet.
Cities in Flight
3
She is mired in the miasmic swamp I identify with Dionysus.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
4
It was close beside a spring that gave out a faint, miasmic odor.
The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
5
The mists arising from earth are only miasmic vapours after all!
Station Amusements in New Zealand
1
The miasmal taint of the ominously proliferating vegetation was soon pervading the ship, spreading demoralization everywhere.
The Sky Trap
2
Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
Go Set a Watchman
3
Some miasmal gust must have swept by, something born of want that scattered germs of anger and vengeance.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
4
No doubt it is still down the well- Iknowthere was something wrong with the sunlight I saw above the miasmal brink.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
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No doubt it is still down the well- Iknowthere was something wrong with the sunlight I saw above that miasmal brink.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Resembling or characteristic of vapor.

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Usage of vapourous in English
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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
Vapourous through the time