Adjective: sulphureous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sulphureous |
| Superlative | most sulphureous |
Sample Sentences
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Thy blazing hearths, / From deep sulphureous pits, consumeless stores / Of fuel boast. [1754, Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue, page 46:]
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The plain of Naples is the image of human passions; sulphureous and fertile; its dangers and its pleasures seem born of these fiery volcanoes, which give the air so many charms, and cause the thunderbolt to growl beneath our feet. [1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 236:]
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An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all. [1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:]
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The next morning I went to see the hot-springs and mud volcanoes, for which this place is celebrated. A picturesque path among plantations and ravines brought us to a beautiful circular basin about forty feet in diameter, bordered by a calcareous ledge, so uniform and truly curved, that it looked like a work of art. It was filled with clear water very near the boiling point, and emitted clouds of steam with a strong sulphureous odour. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 405:]
Adjectives inflected like sulphureous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus. See: Latin Adjectives '
sulphureus'.