Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, resembling, or containing urine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to urine, or partaking of its properties.

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  • adjective Pertaining to urine.

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Examples

  • (if such were possible!) still hoarding the build of a boy in his twenties, as he soaks, a ramrod with the muscle of a seal in his long tub, vaguely urinous from the Victorian plumbing.

    The Mad Poets Society 2001

  • Hákarl has a pungent, urinous, fishy odor that causes most newbies to gag.

    You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012

  • I inhale the vaguely urinous air of the subway car.

    The Quiet Room by Doug Holder Doug Holder 2011

  • Will was loved for his vivid colors, the creation colors of the Edenlike islands, including the urinous mango-juice yellow, green from crushed hibiscus leaves, dusty purple from wild plum trees on Java, and a peculiar russet in his _Country Road_, _Kamuela_ was a pigment of red clay he had scraped from the very earth he had depicted.

    Beard 2010

  • Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree.

    Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice 2009

  • This material was asphalt, the limitations of which soon became obvious: not only did asphalt create a dark and gloomy impression, but it retained moisture and urinous smells.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This material was asphalt, the limitations of which soon became obvious: not only did asphalt create a dark and gloomy impression, but it retained moisture and urinous smells.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This material was asphalt, the limitations of which soon became obvious: not only did asphalt create a dark and gloomy impression, but it retained moisture and urinous smells.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • And sometime later I sat on the floor in a urinous Oakland motel room and tried to cry.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • And sometime later I sat on the floor in a urinous Oakland motel room and tried to cry.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

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