caliginous

[ kuh-lij-uh-nuhs ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. misty; dim; dark.

caliginous

/ kəˈlɪdʒɪnəs /

adjective

1. archaic.
   dark; dim

Other Words From

• ca·lig·i·nos·i·ty [k, uh, -lij-, uh, -, nos, -i-tee], ca·ligi·nous·ness noun
• ca·ligi·nous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of caliginous¹

1540–50; < Latin cālīginōsus misty, equivalent to cālīgin- (stem of cālīgō ) mist + -ōsus -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of caliginous¹

C16: from Latin cālīginōsus, from cālīgō darkness

Example Sentences

A caliginous floating video of a glassy black horse eye blinks perpetually on the home page.

From New York Times

Her long small face looked back at her gravely under the caliginous head-dress, as she shook her head from side to side, to make it totter and tilt.

From Project Gutenberg

The only signpost was a list of names and room numbers tacked to a corkboard, so I found mine and rollerbagged down the building’s spooky, caliginous hallways until I tracked down my assigned spot.

From New York Times

To the first two movies' clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk, adds what has become a go-to staple of Hollywood fantasy: the retro-conspiracy theory.

From Time

Were one content, like Gibbon, to take one's history like snuff there would be to hand a mass of caliginous detail with which to cause shuddering in the unsuspecting reader.

From Project Gutenberg