of-the-mill; spiritless, unanimated, zestless, sapless, Sl. dead, Sl. nothing; uninteresting, unentertaining, inexpressive, unimaginative. vapor, n. 1. fog, mist, cloud, haze, film, pollution, smog; steam, smoke, fume; gas, ether, miasma; breath, exhalation, emanation, Archaic, halitus.
2. fantasy, fancy, vagary, dream, daydream, Inf. pipe dream; whimsy, rhapsody, romance, invention, imagination; figment, delusion, chimera, vision, mirage, myth; phantom, ghost, illusion, apparition, Spiritualism. ectoplasm.
-v. 3. vaporize, steam, smoke, fume, give off, send out, puff, blow, emit; exhale, transpire, expel, let out, expire; outpour, spew; evaporate, melt away, disappear, vanish, go up in a puff of smoke; volatilize, etherealize.
4. brag, bluster, boast, vaunt, flourish, put on airs, puff, preen, blow one's own horn, swagger, talk big, gasconade; glory, exult, crow, trumpet, gloat; talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, Sl. gas, Sl. throw the bull; run off at the mouth, prattle, blather, blabber, babble, jabber, carry on, go on. vaporization, n. 1. evaporation, distillation, va-porescence, volatilization, gasification; steaming, clouding, fogging, misting, filming; fumigating, fumigation, vaporizing. vaporize, v. 1. volatilize, distill, gasify, Chem. etherify; etherealize.
2. steam, boil, mist, haze, smoke, fume; evaporate, disappear, vanish, dissolve.
3. brag, boast, advertise oneself, blow one's own horn, pat oneself on the back, vaunt, flourish, gasconade, puff, vapor. See vapor (def. 4). vaporous, adj. 1. gaseous, gasiform, pneumatic, aeriform, vapory, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporific, va-porescent, volatile, Archaic, halituous; fumy, fumelike, exhalant, breathy; steamy, foggy, misty, brumous, humid, murky, Sl. soupy; hazy, cloudy, beclouded, overcast, gray, smoky; clouded, unclear, indistinct, ambiguous, dim, obscure, dark.
2. diaphonous, aery, aerial, ethereal, etherous, gossamery, gossamer, wispy; thin, tenuous, rare, rarefied, subtle, abstract, esoteric, recondite; vague, indefinite, notional, flimsy, unsubstantial, half-baked, Sl. half-assed; fanciful, imaginary, chimerical, dreamy, illusive, illusory, unreal, fantastic; unreliable, undependable, uncertain, questionable, dubious, doubtful, suspect, Sl. fishy. variable, adj. 1. changeable, changeful, changing, chameleonic, chameleonlike, protean, varying, variational, variant, variative; vicissitudinary, vicissitudi-nous, fluctuating, fluctuant, vacillating, vacillatory, vacillant, wavering, shilly-shallying; moody, emotional, mercurial, capricious, lightsome; fickle, skittish, faddish, flighty, blowing hot and cold, on again-off again, unreliable, undependable; inconstant, unsteady, unstable, irregular, random, intermittent.
2. alterable, modifiable, permutable, mutable, transformable, transmutable; commutative, substitutive, exchangeable, interchangeable, convertible, reversible.
3. varied, diversified, diverse. See various (defs. 1,2).
4. multicolored, many-faceted, many-sided. See variegated (def 1). variance, n. 1. variability, variableness; diversity, variety, disparateness, heterogeneity, heterogeneousness. See variety (def 1).
2. difference, differential, departure, deviation; discrepancy, disparity, incongruity, contrariety.