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Adjective: vapory  vey-pu-ree
Usage: US (=vapoury)
  1. Filled with vapor
    - miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapoury [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. Resembling or characteristic of vapor
    "vapory clouds"
    - vaporific, vapourific [Brit, Cdn], vaporish [US], vapourish [Brit, Cdn], vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapoury [Brit, Cdn]
     
  3. So thin as to transmit light
    "a hat with a vapory veil"
    - diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], cobwebby, vapoury [Brit, Cdn]
     
  4. [archaic] Splenetic; peevish
    - vapoury [Brit, Cdn, archaic]

See also: cloudy, gaseous, thin