sulfurous

Thân thiện

The air grew sulfurous before the storm.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Containing, resembling, derived from, or related to sulfur: Pertaining to the chemical element sulfur (S), its compounds, or characteristics.
   • Harsh, bitter, or corrosive in tone: Characterized by severe, scathing, or venomous criticism.
   • (Archaic) Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; stifling: Suggestive of the heat and fumes associated with sulfurous places like volcanoes or hell.

Usage and Examples

• Meaning: Containing or related to sulfur:

  • The volcanic region emitted a sulfurous odor.
  • Miners sometimes encounter sulfurous gases underground.

• Meaning: Harsh and corrosive in tone:

  • The critic delivered a sulfurous attack on the new policy.
  • Their debate was filled with sulfurous accusations.

• Meaning: Oppressively hot and humid (archaic/literary):

  • The sulfurous air of the jungle was almost unbearable.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use for "Hellish" or "Infernal": Often used in literary contexts to describe something as fiendish, evil, or reminiscent of hell, which is traditionally depicted as smelling of sulfur (brimstone).
  • He was cast into the sulfurous pits of his own despair.

Variants and Related Words

• Sulphurous: (Chiefly British English spelling) An alternative spelling of "sulfurous."
• Sulfuric (adj): Of or relating to sulfur, especially in its higher valence. (e.g., ).
• Sulfureous (adj): (Archaic) An older form meaning resembling or containing sulfur.

Synonyms

• For "containing sulfur": sulfurous, sulphurous.
• For "harsh in tone": vitriolic, caustic, acerbic, acrid, blistering, scathing.
• For "oppressively hot": sultry, stifling, sweltering.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Sulfurous denunciation: A phrase describing an extremely harsh and condemnatory verbal attack.
  • The senator's speech was a sulfurous denunciation of corruption.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
   • the summer was sultry and oppressive
   • the stifling atmosphere
   • the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
2. harsh or corrosive in tone
   • an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose
   • a barrage of acid comments
   • her acrid remarks make her many enemies
   • bitter words
   • blistering criticism
   • caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics
   • a sulfurous denunciation
   • a vitriolic critique
3. of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sultry
• stifling
• sulphurous