Today’s word of the day is ‘Embonpoint.’ Let us understand more about this word.
[responsivevoice] fuliginous [/responsivevoice] [ fyoo-lij–uh-nuh s ]
What is this word’s grammar?
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
1. Obscure
2. Sooty
3. Hazy
4. Veiled
How is the word pronounced in popular languages?
1. Hindi – Dhooe se kaala
2. Spanish – Fuliginoso
3. French – Fuligineux
4. Mandarin – Chōngfèn de
How to use this word in a sentence?
1. The colors vary from smoky to fuliginous, olive and yellow, and the spores are ferruginous.
2. The color varies greatly between yellowish-brown to olive-brown, fuliginous or nearly black
3. A fiery, fuliginous mass, which could not be choked and smothered, but would fill all France with smoke!
4. His soul, like a sword-blade too long in the scabbard, was beginning to get fuliginous by inactivity.
5. Upon these fuliginous and amethystine crystals are many sphericles or hemispheres of red compact iron-ore, like haematites.
What are some synonyms of the word of the day?
Some synonyms of the word are:
dim, dull, dusky, foggy, frosty, misty, murky, nebulous, opaque, smoky, vague, obfuscated, obscure, smoggy etc
What are some antonyms of the word of the day?
Some antonyms of the word are:
bright, clear, definite, distinct, intelligent, light, luminous, certain, sunny, sure, uncloudy, unconfused, unhazy
Quotation:
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 shadow to the dream and harbinger of death.Henry Miller
Social Example:
My thoughts on a rancid but seemingly perennial product of Academia Inc.: rabid anti-Americanism, served up in a fuliginous fog of reader-proof prose, fired by a murderous if trendy leftism. It is truly disgusting. Why do we continue to support it? https://t.co/2xcLSAI2pL pic.twitter.com/ifHz6NdsAZ
— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) February 4, 2019
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