gaseous

[gas-ee-uhs, gash-uhs]

adjective

1. existing in the state of a gas; not solid or liquid.

2. pertaining to or having the characteristics of gas.

3. Informal.,  lacking firmness or solidity; uncertain; not definite.

4. gassy.

gaseous

/ ˈɡæsɪəs, -ʃəs, ˈɡeɪ-, -ʃɪəs /

adjective

1. of, concerned with, or having the characteristics of a gas

Other Word Forms

• gaseousness noun
• gaseity noun
• nongaseous adjective
• nongaseousness noun
• pseudogaseous adjective
• quasi-gaseous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gaseous¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; gas + -eous

Example Sentences

In one marketing brief it was referred to as “removing gaseous contaminants” from the air supply.

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Her gauzy, often gaseous, rhetoric made her sound like a dean of students at a small liberal arts college.

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Along with gaseous reactive nitrogen, satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere at the end of their lives leave tiny particles of aluminum oxide, imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer.

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Mightn’t that be more important than filling the airwaves with more gaseous blah blah?

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But all that whining could be written off as just more gaseous venting had the president not threatened to withhold desperately needed aid to fire-ravaged Southern California.

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