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Word entry · 8 letters

vaporous

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"Full of mist"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈveɪpəɹəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aooprsuvStarts with VEnds with S1 clues
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Definitions

  1. filled with vapor

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Hovv can darkneſſe be called a Maſſe? &c. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither.
  • For the great rock has screened the westering sun / That still on plains beyond streams vaporous gold / Among the branches; […]
  • The wind began to rise and soon the vapourous mist began to eddy and whirl in wild confusion.

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