Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of rumor; circulated by popular report.
- Confused or indistinct in sound; vaguely heard; murmuring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors.
- adjective obsolete Famous; notorious.
- adjective Obs. or Poetic Murmuring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Indistinct or confounded in sound;murmuring ; vaguely heard. - adjective Of the natures of
rumours ;circulated by popularreport .
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Examples
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Even more rumorous, Jane Espenson may be writing the first one.
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I had at first thought it might be "_rumorous_ eyes;" but the personification would then be wanting.
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Of all our protectors, there is none whose rumorous presence is more potent than the Spirit of the Threshold.
The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart
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Far through rumorous leagues of midnight stirred by breezes warm.
The Robing of the King A. E. 1913
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Far through rumorous leagues of midnight stirred by breezes warm.
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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As he threaded the dim alleys he noticed not the flaming eyes which regarded him from the gloom; the serpents rustling amid the undergrowth; the lizards, fireflies, insects, and the innumerable lives of which the Indian forest was rumorous; they also were but shadows.
Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901
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One might almost have been in the country, but for the faint, rumorous noises of the town beginning to wake, and that film of ground-mist which veils the feet of
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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One might almost have been in the country, but for the faint, rumorous noises of the town beginning to wake, and that film of ground-mist which veils the feet of London mornings.
Beyond John Galsworthy 1900
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Who, though but just of forty turned, have heard the rumorous fame
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Blank bride of the hour, occluded thought wed to waning like a sifting scent of future flowers, retrograde intent backwards blooming as a nascent naught staining minutes, rumorous, uncaught.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Anis Shivani 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word rumorous
"Confused or indistinct in sound; vaguely heard; murmuring."
--Cent. Dict.
November 20, 2012