fulgurous

[ fuhl-gyer-uhs ]

adjective

1. characteristic of or resembling lightning:

   the fulgurous cracking of a whip.

fulgurous

/ ˈfʌlɡjʊrəs /

adjective

1. rare.
   flashing like or resembling lightning; fulgurant

Word History and Origins

Origin of fulgurous¹

1610–20; < Latin fulgur- ( fulgurate ) + -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of fulgurous¹

C17: from Latin fulgur lightning

Example Sentences

The cinematography, by Tim Sidell, can make an overhead shot of a blender hypnotic, and shots of pasta and bread laid out in a tableau is, to use an appropriately pretentious word, fulgurous.

From Salon

Especially in his later plays a verse and a couplet will crash out with fulgurous brilliancy, and then be succeeded by pages of very second-rate declamation or argument.

From Project Gutenberg

There was more conversation—that fulgurous, coruscating reiteration of charges.

From Project Gutenberg

When it was all over and the train bearing the general foreman had gone, Rourke quieted down, but not without many fulgurous flashes that kept the poor Italian on tenterhooks.

From Project Gutenberg

She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes.

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