foudroyant
/fuˈdɹɔɪənt/
foudroyant adjective: having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
Adjective
foudroyant (comparative more foudroyant, superlative most foudroyant)
- Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
- […] As makers go, / compared with Pindar or any / of the great foudroyant masters who don't ever / amend, we are, for all our polish, of little / stature […]1968, W. H. Auden, “The Horatians”, in Collected Poems, Modern Library, published 2007, page 773
- fulminant
foudroyant meaning in Tamil and Bengali
foudroyant in Tamil
- விரைவான, வருந்தக்கூடிய
foudroyant in Bengali
- তীব্র
Forms of foudroyant
| comparative | more foudroyant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most foudroyant |
Origin of foudroyant
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Questions about foudroyant
- What does foudroyant mean?
- Foudroyant means having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
- What is foudroyant in Tamil?
- Foudroyant in Tamil is விரைவான, வருந்தக்கூடிய. See Foudroyant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is foudroyant?
- Foudroyant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce foudroyant?
- Foudroyant is pronounced /fuˈdɹɔɪənt/.
Words near foudroyant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: foudroyant (page history and authors); foudroyant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foudroyant (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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