vaporous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.

   “Hovv can darkneſſe be called a Maſſe? &c. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither.”

2. sıfat Breathing out or giving off vapour.
3. sıfat Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.

   “O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.”

4. sıfat Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.

   “Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds / Along the pebbled shore of memory! / Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be / Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified / To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, / And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.”

5. sıfat Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.

   “So vvhoſoeuer ſhall entertaine high and vapourous imaginations, in ſteede of a laborious and ſober inquiry of truth ſhall beget hopes and Beliefes of ſtrange and impoſſible ſhapes.”

6. sıfat Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy.

   “[A]irily-attired ladies were lounging upon the chairs in the gardens of the Tuileries; only the most fragile and vaporous bonnets were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne; […]”

7. sıfat Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.

   “The task at first daunted him, and he wailed to Mary that he could not write about the Florentines because he no longer enjoyed them as a school. Again Mary rescued him from his vaporous mood, and the two of them vigorously plunged into the new work.”