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fulgurous

[ fuhl-gyer-uhs ]

adjective

  1. characteristic of or resembling lightning:

    the fulgurous cracking of a whip.



fulgurous

/ ˈʌɡʊə /

adjective

  1. rare.
    flashing like or resembling lightning; fulgurant
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fulgurous1

1610–20; < Latin fulgur- ( fulgurate ) + -ous
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fulgurous1

C17: from Latin fulgur lightning
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The cinematography, by Tim Sidell, can make an overhead shot of a blender hypnotic, and shots of pasta and bread laid out in a tableau is, to use an appropriately pretentious word, fulgurous.

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Especially in his later plays a verse and a couplet will crash out with fulgurous brilliancy, and then be succeeded by pages of very second-rate declamation or argument.

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There was more conversation—that fulgurous, coruscating reiteration of charges.

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When it was all over and the train bearing the general foreman had gone, Rourke quieted down, but not without many fulgurous flashes that kept the poor Italian on tenterhooks.

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She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes.

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