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Definition of "vaporish" []

  • Suggestive of or resembling vapor. (adjective)
  • Archaic Affected by the vapors; given to spells of hysteria or low spirits. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vaporish" in a sentence
  • "He looked about and found himself surrounded by mysterious vaporish bodies that wove about and embraced him in gentle coolness."
  • "One sniff of that love potion had left me feeling vaporish for nearly an hour."
  • "His physician, Dr. — —, as I am told, had, very ignorantly, checked a coming fit of the gout, and scattered it about his body; and it fell particularly upon his nerves, so that he continues exceedingly vaporish; and would neither see nor speak to anybody while he was here."