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Definition of "fulgurous" []

  • Emitting flashes of lightning. (adjective)
  • Emitting flashes similar to lightning. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fulgurous" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • ""The naturalists say they are generated in the sky by fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumfused humor.""
  • "When it was all over, and the train, bearing the general foreman, had gone, Burke quieted down, but not without many fulgurous flashes that kept the poor Italian on tenterhooks."
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