different between vaporous vs sweltering

vaporous

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.

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sweltering

English

Adjective

sweltering

  1. (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky

Translations

Verb

sweltering

  1. present participle of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

  1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
    • March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook
      It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.

Anagrams

  • e-wrestling, welterings

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