Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fellifluous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fel-liflu-ous
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Flowing with bile or gall.

Example Sentences

"Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance […]"
"Its claws scratch at the back of his eyeballs and cause him to see visions, to shriek with fevers, to choke in the embrace of fetid and fellifluous chimeras […]"
"The disease of cholera, according to some, derives its name from the flow of bile that takes place from mouth and bowels, cholera being, so to speak, ‘the fellifluous disease.’"
"Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman."
"What could ever be termed defeatist or pessimistic – what could ever be called fellifluous – about such ideas?"

Etymology

From Latin fellifluus, from fel (“gall”) + fluere (“to flow”).

Inflected Forms

more fellifluous (comparative) most fellifluous (superlative)

Questions

What does fellifluous mean?: Flowing with bile or gall.
Where does fellifluous come from?: From Latin fellifluus, from fel (“gall”) + fluere (“to flow”).

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