circumambient
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Including all aspects of; encompassing.
adj
adv
In a circumambient manner.
Example Sentences
- "Thus gaiety and cheerfulness prevail, / Spreading from young to old, from old to young, / And no one seems to want his share.—Immense / Is the recess, the circumambient world / Magnificent, by which they are embraced: […]"
- "Philip seemed really to be born again. He breathed the circumambient air as though he had never breathed it before, and he took a child's pleasure in all the facts of the world."
- "Groups of citizens—broad-browed Roman colonists and coarse-haired Romanised natives, together with obvious hybrids of the two strains, alike clad in cheap woollen togas—and sprinklings of helmeted legionaries and coarse-mantled, black-bearded tribesmen of the circumambient Vascones—all thronged the few paved streets and forum; moved by some vague and ill-defined uneasiness."
- "The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more circumambient (comparative)
most circumambient (superlative)