sulphurous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It is only when actually gazing on an active volcano that one can fully realize its awfulness and grandeur. Whence comes that inexhaustible fire whose dense and sulphurous smoke forever issues from this bare and desolate peak?"
- ""The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more sulphurous (comparative)
most sulphurous (superlative)