circumambient

[ sur-kuhm-am-bee-uhnt ]

adjective

1. encompassing; surrounding; enveloping:

   circumambient gloom.

circumambient

/ ˌsɜːkəmˈæmbɪənt /

adjective

1. surrounding

Derived Forms

• ˌcircumˈambience, noun

Other Words From

• circum·ambi·ence circum·ambi·en·cy noun
• circum·ambi·ent·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of circumambient¹

First recorded in 1625–35; from Late Latin circumambient- (stem of circumambiēns ); circum-, ambient

Word History and Origins

Origin of circumambient¹

C17: from Late Latin circumambīre, from circum- + ambīre to go round

Example Sentences

With it, we reduce the huge circumambient room for error to a manageable somatic circumference.

From Golf Digest

Sometimes the sounds are circumambient.

From New York Times

There is a lot of circumambient madness that the captions help pin down.

From New York Times

The moment of highest insanity would probably have been around the "Circumambient" period.

From New York Times

Along they went, sometimes abreast, sometimes in single file, up the little paths, and down the little paths, and in among the bushes and out along the edge above the beach, and Kipps went along trying ever and again to get an insignificant word in edgeways, and the gestures of Chitterlow flew wide and far and his great voice rose and fell, and he said this and he said that and he biffed and banged into the circumambient Inane.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• neighboring