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vaporous.

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Resembling vapour: misty, diffuse, or lacking a clear solid outline.

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  • vaporous haze
  • vaporous forms

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Vaporous shapes drifted between the lights and the dark ceiling.

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Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Comparative more vaporous; superlative most vaporous when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.

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