Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Emitting flashes of lightning.
- adjective Emitting flashes similar to lightning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lightning-like; appearing or acting like lightning.
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- adjective Resembling a
lightning flash;fulgurant . - adjective Full of lightning.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
The Titan 2004
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"The naturalists say they are generated in the sky by fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumfused humor."
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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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.
The Mighty Burke 1911
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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.
The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908
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This was the theory of the learned Tollius, who in 1649 told the world that these chipped or smoothed stones were "generated in the sky by a fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumposed humour."
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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