Today’s word of the day is ‘ Tellurian.’ Let us understand more about this word.
[responsivevoice] tellurian [/responsivevoice] [ te-loo r-ee-uh n ]
What is this word’s grammar?
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
It means:
1. Earthly
2. Worldling
3. Terrene
4. Carnal
How is the word ‘tellurian‘ pronounced in popular languages?
1. Hindi – Prthvee ka
2. Spanish – Teluriano
3. French – Terrien
4. Mandarin – Dì
How to use this word in a sentence?
1. I have worked many a Tellurian fair
2. Jim, what are the tellurian figures for exactly five hundred miles up?
3. Roger is undoubted of Tellurian parentage, and the story is that his father was a moon-pirate, his mother a Greek adventuress.
4. They were asexual: sexless to a degree unapproached by any form of Tellurian life higher than the yeasts.
5. This suggests to me that it is not distance per se, but a property of the atmosphere that gives us our tellurian seasons.
What are some synonyms of the word of the day?
Some synonyms of the word are:
human, material, mortal, secular, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, global, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, subastral, sublunary, terraqueous, unspiritual, worldly etc.
What are some antonyms of the word of the day?
Some antonyms of the word are:
immortal, inhuman, mental, otherworldly, permanent, spiritual
Quotation:
If sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of corybulous, hypogeum, plangent, irreflagably, glozening, tellurian, conclamant, sometimes we are caught up in thesoaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
Randall Jarrell
Social Example:
https://twitter.com/MithraFelinity/status/1231585645321125889
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