Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Intensely black.
Wiktionary
- adj. Jet black in color.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Coal-black; very black.
Examples
“A tidal wave of printer's ink has swept across the continent, churned to atrous foam by hurricanes of lawless gibberish and wild gusts of resounding gab.”
“A voice of wisdom, the spacey guidance counselor Ms. Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), finally acknowledges something that is ostensibly about life at McKinley High School, but could be about our youth-obsessed, "Idol" - atrous, Justin Bieber-fever, "Twilight" - ish culture at large:”
“Shakespeare's "_idol atrous platts for riches_." [”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘atrous’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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play words
words for a play
pert, vicissitude, melancholy, vexation, gaud, attestation, renunciation, wax, wrought, sunder, antipodes, reckoning and 236 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Colors Categorized: Blacks
Exactly what it says on the tin
black, ink, tar, pitch, raven, ebony, sable, jet, onyx, obsidian, swarthy, piceous and 5 more...
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Uncommon Color Names
Tyrian, aubergine, vermillion, gentian blue, chartreuse, cerulean, carmine, gamboge, cinnabar, feldgrau, malachite, periwinkle and 41 more...
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Colours
vermeil, flavescent, fulvous, icterine, atrous, melanic, sable, xanthic, cinerious, griseous, hoary
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Theodora's
aurulent, heliotrope, wheaten, viridian, umber, titian, saffron, sable, smaragdine, ponceau, prasinous, coquelicot and 23 more...
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Black
Words meaning black.
nigrous, atrous, nigricant, nigrific, nigrescent, nigresceous, nigrine, atramental, atramentous, fuliginous, sable
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whichbe Jet black. (from Phrontistery) May 22, 2008