foudroyant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
foudroyant (comparative more foudroyant, superlative most foudroyant)
- Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
- 1968, W. H. Auden, “The Horatians”, in Collected Poems, Modern Library, published 2007, page 773:
- […] As makers go, / compared with Pindar or any / of the great foudroyant masters who don't ever / amend, we are, for all our polish, of little / stature […]
- (medicine) fulminant
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From foudroyer.
Adjective[edit]
foudroyant (feminine foudroyante, masculine plural foudroyants, feminine plural foudroyantes)
- (figuratively) rapid
- (figuratively) devastating
- (medicine) fulminant; fatal, deadly (coming on quickly and destructively)
- Il a contracté une méningite foudroyante.
- He contracted a fulminant meningitis.
Participle[edit]
foudroyant
Further reading[edit]
- “foudroyant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
foudroyant (strong nominative masculine singular foudroyanter, not comparable)
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of foudroyant (uncomparable)
Further reading[edit]
- “foudroyant” in Duden online
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