auroral
/ɔˈɹɔɹəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.06 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
Example Sentences
- "This first created light is properly the auroral light."
- "This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious."
- "Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral."
- "Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl. But she was not demanding and she was not headlong and she counseled herself to look on this tenuous, auroral experience as one that would last only so long as she remained in England […]"
- "Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,"
- "The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful."
Etymology
From aurora + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔˈɹɔɹəl/
- British English: /ɔːˈɹɔəɹəl/
Inflected Forms
more auroral (comparative)
most auroral (superlative)