caliginous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- caliginosity noun
- caliginously adverb
- caliginousness noun
Etymology
Origin of caliginous
1540–50; < Latin cālīginōsus misty, equivalent to cālīgin- (stem of cālīgō ) mist + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A caliginous floating video of a glassy black horse eye blinks perpetually on the home page.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2021
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 • Dec. 29, 2011
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 • Jun. 29, 2011
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 She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
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 The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
