Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Whispering; full of sounds resembling whispers; rustling.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by soft sounds
Examples
“I miss the electronic susurrous of the sum of human knowledge, underpinning reality.”
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““Music is life,” added Lothero, susurrous as he spun on one foot.”
“Harry detected a satisfied Japanese intake of breath, a susurrous pleasure that filled the room.”
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“Up from the sea came the susurrous voice of the reef whispering its eternal questions.”
“In every garret, from every rafter, slowly swayed great susurrous bunches of withered herbs and simples awaiting expression and distillation, and dreaming perhaps of the summer breezes that had blown through them in the sunny days of their youth in their meadow homes.”
“There are some items missing: surely, if susurrar is onomatopoeic Spanish for rustle, the English equivalents, susurration, susurrant, susurrous, and susurrus should be shown.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘susurrous’.
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Descriptions of Sound
jingling, gurgling, horrisonous, horrisonant, crepitant, screeching, ringing, sonorous, clamorous, rattling, roaring, breathy and 71 more...
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Aeolus's Vocabulary
Words concerning or relating to wind, air, sky, or heavens! Anything concerning Aeolus (King of the Winds) will be collected here.
aeromancy, zephyr, favonius, boreas, ether, etesian, empyrean, wind, breeze, gust, cyclone, nor'easter and 18 more...
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fredrx's beautiful sounding list
two most beautiful words when put together
womb, philistine, poignant, wombastic, eschelon, macabre, precipitous, panache, misogynist, placebo, cacophony, aplomb and 43 more...
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song & sound
ofravens My head on the pillow (Piano, pianissimo)
Lullayed by susurrous lyres and viols.
from "Alicante Lullaby," Sylvia Plath
Mar 26, 2008