vaporously Definition

vapour
vapor
noun

1. A substance in the form of a mist, fume or smoke, especially one coming off from a solid or liquid.

Thesaurus: steam, mist, condensation, breath, fog, exhalation, gas, haze, smoke, smog.
2. chem.
A gas that can be condensed to a liquid by pressure alone, without being cooled, consisting of atoms or molecules, dispersed in the air, that have evaporated from the surface of a substance that normally (ie at standard temperature and pressure) exists in the form of a liquid or solid.
Example: water vapour
3. old use
A feeling of depression, or of faintness, formerly thought to be caused by gases in the stomach.
Thesaurus: despair, blues, melancholy, depression.
Form: the vapours

verb, intr vapoured, vapouring

1. To rise as vapour; to evaporate.
2. To brag or talk idly.

Derivative: vaporous
adj

Filled with vapour; taking the form of a vapour
Thesaurus: foggy, hazy, misty, wispy.

Derivative: vaporously
adverb

Derivative: vaporousness
noun

Derivative: vapourish
adj

Derivative: vapoury
adj

Etymology: 14c: from Latin vapor steam.