Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dark, misty, and gloomy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dim; obscure; dark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
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- adjective Which is influenced by
darkness orobscurity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dark and misty and gloomy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“It was a dark and stormy night” might become “It was a caliginous and raving night” or “It was an obscure and disorderly night” – not exactly conveying what the original does.
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Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned.
'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty John Anderson 2011
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“It was a dark and stormy night” might become “It was a caliginous and raving night” or “It was an obscure and disorderly night” – not exactly conveying what the original does.
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You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk ...
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Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Yet, as she turned weakly, she saw Camon looming above her in the caliginous room, drunken fury showing in his face.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to be a star of a counterfeit aspect.
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Behind this individual, a corpulent caliginous man, came a following round of guards.
Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000
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'Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk.'
Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997
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Ahead, the sun began to emerge from hiding, and it was as caliginous as the misbegotten stars.
The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
yarb commented on the word caliginous
...those dark, fogbound, snowblinding caliginous spells...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008
dbekeny commented on the word caliginous
OZ'S VOICE
You dare to come to me for a heart, do you?
You clinking, clanking, clattering
collection of caliginous....junk!
June 9, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word caliginous
"Then he turned to begin his own caliginous descent down the forest path that pointed to the Outland and to all of its wondrous wonders."
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 186
September 3, 2011