vapory
/ˈveɪpəɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads."
- "The greatest damps however, that may ever roll upon your spirits, will arise from the stupidity of sinners, and the vapory dullness of declining Christians."
- "Long at the window he stood, and wistfully gazed on the landscape, / Washed with a cold gray mist, the vapory breath of the east-wind,"
- "At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East, was shot thro' with a soft glory as of the fleece of the Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, […]"
- "See also quotations under vapoury."
- "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
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈveɪpəɹi/