zephyrous
/ˈzɛfəɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a zephyr.
adj
Like a zephyr.
Example Sentences
- "Hither no winds, but zephyrous breaths repair, Soft, as the sighs of love sick virgins are!"
- "And the blossom as scarlet as blood, the single, the starry, the strong, Is the Alpine love that is nurtured in clefts of the toiler’s life,— The love that is sought not in languor nor chanted in zephyrous song, But held in the heart of the storm when the soul has been wed to a wife."
- "1800, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, The Stepmother, London: R.H. Evans, Act V, Scene 1, p. 75, The last night’s tempest was a zephyrous gale, To the rough storm that tears his frame to atoms: …"
- "He used to be impatient of poems about budding flowers and zephyrous breezes."
- "It was March now, the mild March of an early spring. There came new days, zephyrous and sweet."
- "Green-hatted doormen awaken the eve in statuary-niched yellow lobbies— zephyrous canyons brightlit, gray stone Empire State too small to be God lords it over sweet Macy’s & Seafood City by junkie Grant Hotel—"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more zephyrous (comparative)
most zephyrous (superlative)