different between vaporous vs lowering

English

Alternative forms

• vapourous

Etymology

From Middle French vapoureus, from Late Latin vap?r?sus (“full of steam”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?ve?p???s/

Adjective

vaporous (comparative more vaporous, superlative most vaporous)

1. Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

     O hateful, vaporous, and foggy night!

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

     So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a laborious and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English louryng, louringe, lowrynge, later variant of lourand, lowrand, lourande, lowrande, equivalent to lour +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch loerend (“lurking, louring”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la??r??/, enPR: ?l??riNG
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la??r??/

Adjective

lowering (comparative more lowering, superlative most lowering)

1. (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.

   Synonyms: gloomy, threatening
2. That lowers or frowns.

   Synonyms: frowning, scowling, gloomy, sullen, glowering

3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.

Noun

lowering (plural lowerings)

1. Alternative form of louring.

Alternative forms

• louring

Derived terms

Etymology 2

c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?(?)r??/, enPR: ?l??riNG
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l???r??/

Verb

lowering

1. present participle of lower

Noun

lowering (plural lowerings)

1. The act of something being lowered.

Translations

Anagrams

• roweling