Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nepheligenous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nephelige-nous
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing clouds of smoke.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using stinky tobacco with nepheligenous results."
"[…] let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. For now the over-tense nerves are all unstraining themselves, […]"
"You were like / a nepheligenous intersection solstice of / Besmirched Animus; we / cluttered together like Advertisement / arrhythmia."
"Leaning forward, still holding the nepheligenous pipe in his hand, his deep brown eyes looked directly into hers. Well, she told herself, we will just see about this! “What...what did you say?” she asked. Concentrating on his handsome fingers, she had missed out on his[…]"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -genous. Coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1862.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: -genous

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

more nepheligenous (comparative) most nepheligenous (superlative)

Questions

What does nepheligenous mean?: Producing clouds of smoke.
Where does nepheligenous come from?: From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -genous. Coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1862.

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