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clangerous

clangerous is the rare spelling of clangorous.

Meaning of clangorous

Adjective

clangorous (comparative more clangorous, superlative most clangorous)

  1. Making a clangor.
    • Who would have thought that the clangorous Noise of a Smith’s Hammers should have given the first rise to Musick?1712 March 24, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, volume V, number 334

Forms of clangerous

comparativemore clangerous
superlativemost clangerous

Questions about clangerous

What is clangerous the rare spelling of?
Clangerous is the rare spelling of clangorous.

Words near clangerous in the dictionary

  1. clanfellows
  2. Clanfield
  3. clang
  4. clanged
  5. clanger
  6. clangerous
  7. clangers
  8. clangier
  9. clangiest
  10. clangily
  11. clanging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clangerous (page history and authors); clangorous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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