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Definition of caliginous in English: caliginousadjective kəˈlɪdʒɪnəskəˈlijənəs literary Dark, dim, or misty. Example sentencesExamples - Then it happened, as I didn't expect it would as they lowered the coffin into the crepuscular and caliginous hole we all stood above the coffin holding a clod of dirt, ready to scatter it over the firm wood.
- Women walked behind men and liberation was not even a faint mirage on a caliginous, feminist horizon for un’ Americana in post-war Italy.
- His films are more caliginous dream states than easily explained allegories.
- His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
- Somehow, the caliginous man's intimidating demeanor always failed to discourage or frighten Josh, much less hamper his cheery, gossiping attitude.
- He sat in the dark with a single candle glowing on his desk, facing his computer monitor which was emitting an ethereal light to his head in the caliginous night.
- He bled into the darkness between every light plastered on the ceiling, only displaying his head and shoulders in the caliginous luminosity, fading back to darkness as he walked forward.
- Soft, orange-pink rays of sunlight gradually bathed the caliginous streets.
- The gargantuan black clouds were overcast by a dense, opaque fog, ever converging, camouflaged with the caliginous sky that surrounded.
Origin Mid 16th-century: from Latin caliginosus 'misty', from caligo, caligin- 'mistiness'. Definition of caliginous in US English: caliginousadjectivekəˈlijənəs literary Misty, dim; obscure, dark. Example sentencesExamples - Women walked behind men and liberation was not even a faint mirage on a caliginous, feminist horizon for un’ Americana in post-war Italy.
- Then it happened, as I didn't expect it would as they lowered the coffin into the crepuscular and caliginous hole we all stood above the coffin holding a clod of dirt, ready to scatter it over the firm wood.
- Somehow, the caliginous man's intimidating demeanor always failed to discourage or frighten Josh, much less hamper his cheery, gossiping attitude.
- He sat in the dark with a single candle glowing on his desk, facing his computer monitor which was emitting an ethereal light to his head in the caliginous night.
- The gargantuan black clouds were overcast by a dense, opaque fog, ever converging, camouflaged with the caliginous sky that surrounded.
- His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
- He bled into the darkness between every light plastered on the ceiling, only displaying his head and shoulders in the caliginous luminosity, fading back to darkness as he walked forward.
- His films are more caliginous dream states than easily explained allegories.
- Soft, orange-pink rays of sunlight gradually bathed the caliginous streets.
Origin Mid 16th-century: from Latin caliginosus ‘misty’, from caligo, caligin- ‘mistiness’. |