as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a pompous professor known for his gaseous lectures that often put students to sleep
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The advantage of liquid hydrogen over its gaseous form is in storage.
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Joe Salas, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
For 2023, there was a significant change to the car, now fueled by liquid hydrogen, not gaseous.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
The air is a boiling mass of gaseous soup, distorting and dispersing light coming from the cosmos (this phenomenon is why stars twinkle).
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
Everything seems to come alive at once, opening a hole in the floor that emits a weird, gaseous black… something.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
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Joe Salas, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
For 2023, there was a significant change to the car, now fueled by liquid hydrogen, not gaseous.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
The air is a boiling mass of gaseous soup, distorting and dispersing light coming from the cosmos (this phenomenon is why stars twinkle).
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
Everything seems to come alive at once, opening a hole in the floor that emits a weird, gaseous black… something.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gaseous
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“Gaseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaseous. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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