Vapory

//ˈveɪpəɹi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling vapor; vaporous.

    "But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads."

  2. 2
    Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.

    "The most fetid and poisonous smells everywhere prevailed; and by the aid of that ghastly light which, even at midnight, never fails to emanate from a vapory and pestilential atmosphere, might be discerned lying in the by-paths and alleys, or rotting in the windowless habitations, the carcass of many a nocturnal plunderer arrested by the hand of the plague in the very perpetration of his robbery."

Etymology

From vapor + -y.

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