vaporous

Questions about vaporous

What does vaporous mean?

vaporous means "so thin as to transmit light". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vaporous?

vaporous has 3 syllables and divides as va-po-rous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vaporous?

Close synonyms include diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vaporous a common word?

vaporous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.