vaporous /ˈveɪpəɹəs/ adjective7 •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. — 1651 •(figurative) 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. — 1605 •(figurative) 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; […] — 1863 •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. — 1594 •Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist. •Breathing out or giving off vapour. •Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors. formsmore vaporous · most vaporous