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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

As with many of Cline’s heroines, Alex’s desires are at once basic and vaporous.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2023

She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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