caliginous
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French caligineux (“misty, obscure”), from Latin cālīginōsus (“misty; dark, obscure”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
caliginous (comparative more caliginous, superlative most caliginous)
- Dark, obscure; murky.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 155:
- Inside the atmosphere was rank and caliginous: fumes rose from puddles, groans sifted through the shadows.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 155:
References [edit]
- caliginous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
