nubivagant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.
Example Sentences
- "On the whole, although a man must do his duty, "painful as it is," (as a Judge would say to a felon whom he is going to sentence to death,) yet it would be better for a collineomaniac to think, now and then, of the desolation he is bringing down upon happy nests; of how many little broods he may cause to starve; of how many robbed mates he will send, nubivagant, whistling and singing tremulous love-notes through the air, vainly searching and calling for their lost spouses, never, never to return!"
- "I suspect I will never again see a crowd of 35,000 transform with such speed into nubivagant hip-swivelling beasts."
- "Aircraft are all nubivagant, gorillas are all nemorivagant, and a holiday in Snowdonia could be described as a montivagant weekend."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more nubivagant (comparative)
most nubivagant (superlative)