murmurous
/ˈmɜː(ɹ).mə.ɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur.
Example Sentences
- "Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave Hath long bene underkept, and down supprest, With murmurous disdaine doth inly rave, And grudge, in so streight prison to be prest,"
- "Throughout all the isle There was no covert, no retired cave Unhaunted by the murmurous noise of waves, Though scarcely heard in many a green recess."
- "He felt some dark presence moving irresistably upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself."
- "Waiting, with a glass in my hand —three girls in crimson satin pass close before me on the murmurous background of the crowded opera—"
- "Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge,"
- "And if she speaks in her frail way, it is wholly to bewitch my smallest thought with a most swift radiance wherein slowly drift murmurous things divinely bright;"
Etymology
Etymology tree English murmur Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English murmurous From murmur + -ous.
Inflected Forms
more murmurous (comparative)
most murmurous (superlative)