Word Meanings - VAPORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.

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• HYPOCHONDRIACAL
  See ADV
• PEEVISH
  1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction;
• SPLENETICAL
  Splenetic.
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• PEEVISHLY
  In a peevish manner. Shak.
• PEEVISHNESS
  The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
• SPLENETICALLY
  In a splenetical manner.
• SPLENETIC
  Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." G. Eliot. You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic Pope. Syn. -- Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
• VAPOROUSNESS
  The quality of being vaporous.
• ANTISPLENETIC
  Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.