| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.[Websters]
2. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.[Websters] 3. Being dusky, murky, dark, obscure or opaque. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being pitchy or sooty. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being misty, vaporous, foggy or hazy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being muddy or turbid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb fuliginously.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (fuliginously) | 1. In a smoky manner.[Websters]. 2. In a vaporous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective fuliginous.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FULIGINOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Etymology:Fuliginous \Fu*lig"i*nous\, adjective. [Latin expression fuliginosus, from fuligo soot: compare to the French expression fuligineux. See Fume.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FULIGINOUS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] Pertaining to soot; sooty. 1934: On the beach, masts and chimneys interlaced, and like a fuliginous shadow the figure of Albertine gliding through the surf, fusing into the mysterious quick and prism of a protoplasmic realm, uniting her shadw to the dream and harbinger of death. — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1972: I toy with shouting some tidbit more - some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex - but my heart's not in it. — John Gardner, Grendel (London 1972, p. 10) 1997: With its own fuliginous Weather, at once public and private, created of smoke billowing from Pipes, Hearths, and Stoves, the Room would provide an extraordinary sight, were any able to see — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. (references) | ||
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