sulfurous

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Iran and Venezuela, which traditionally push for higher prices, have a slimmer margin of profit than some others because their oil is heavier and more sulfurous, meaning it sells for less than benchmark crude.

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. adjective Of, relating to, derived from, or containing sulfur, especially with valence 4.
  2. adjective Characteristic of or emanating from burning sulfur.
  3. adjective Fiery; hellish.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • There was always a cloud of smell accompanying wherries, like the sulfurous odor of the river estuary and the mud flats. —  Dragons Dawn
  • A smell like a sulfurous gas, streaming off the man as he stared moodily into the fire. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 02 - February 2002
  • The body smells like the lion cage at a zoo—an acrid, sulfurous, somehow fiery odor. —  FSF,August2004
  • His breath was sour and sulfurous, and my head was pinched tight between the phone and his pistol I had to swallow a couple of times before I could make any words come out. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • It's like the sulfurous smell of a brilliant white egg on a tickly-smelling fresh-cut lawn under bright sunlight. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
 

Tags

sulfurous hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 56 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

spot · PSYCH · Auld · sike · Pinnace

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

embodies · silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda