vapours

1. 1.

   a state of depression

   “he had a bad case of the blues”

   Synonymsbluesblue devilsmegrimsvapors

   Broaderdepression

Other forms of vapours

plural

vapourses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vapours

What does vapours mean?

vapours means "a state of depression".

How many syllables are in vapours?

vapours has 2 syllables: va-pours. The stress falls on "va".

What is another word for vapours?

Close synonyms include blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors. 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 vapours a common word?

vapours is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.