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Vaporous vs Sweltering - What's the difference?

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Vaporous is a related term of sweltering.


As adjectives the difference between vaporous and sweltering

is that vaporous is relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial while sweltering is (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky.

As a verb sweltering is

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vaporous

English

Alternative forms

* vapourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    sweltering

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky
    • The day was sweltering , so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.

    Verb

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