Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Sooty.
  • adjective Colored by or as if by soot.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or having the color of soot; sooty.
  • Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke; dusky.
  • Specifically, in zoöl, and botany, very dark, opaque brown; of the color of soot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
  • adjective Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin fūlīginōsus, from Latin fūlīgō, fūlīgin-, soot.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin fūlīginōsus, from fūlīgo ("soot").

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Examples

  • On my way to trying to find that 'F' word, I learned that "fuliginous" means colored by soot, and the third definition of "flocculus" is a cloudlike mass of gas appearing on the sun's surface.

    NBC Treats Word Games Like the Olympic Games 2007

  • Part of the blood, it was supposed, went through what we now call the pulmonary arteries (Figure 1), and, branching out there, gave exit to certain "fuliginous" products, and at the same time took in from the air a something which Galen calls the

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • By reason of the excessive coldness of the air, hindering the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly can one see across the street, and this filling the lungs with its gross particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one would scarcely breathe.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • By reason of the excessive coldness of the air, hindering the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly can one see across the street, and this filling the lungs with its gross particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one would scarcely breathe.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • By reason of the excessive coldness of the air, hindering the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly can one see across the street, and this filling the lungs with its gross particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one would scarcely breathe.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • All these, most part, offend by inflammation, corrupting humours and spirits, in this non-natural melancholy: for from these are engendered fuliginous and black spirits.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It offends commonly if it be too [1510] hot and dry, thick, fuliginous, cloudy, blustering, or a tempestuous air.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Vulcan was to Venus; for he being a sweaty fuliginous blacksmith, was dearly beloved of her, when fair Apollo, nimble Mercury were rejected, and the rest of the sweet-faced gods forsaken.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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