Word.ws English Dictionary

irriguous

irriguous adjective: irrigated, well-watered.

Adjective

irriguous (comparative more irriguous, superlative most irriguous)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Irrigated, well-watered.
    • Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […].1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • See, where the winding Vale its lavish Stores, / Irriguous, spreads.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

irriguous meaning in Bengali

irriguous in Bengali

সেচযুক্ত, আর্দ্র

Forms of irriguous

comparativemore irriguous
superlativemost irriguous

Origin of irriguous

From Latin irriguus, from in- + riguus (“watered”), from rigāre (“to wet”).

Questions about irriguous

What does irriguous mean?
Irriguous means irrigated, well-watered.
What is irriguous in Bengali?
Irriguous in Bengali is সেচযুক্ত, আর্দ্র. See Irriguous meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is irriguous?
Irriguous is an adjective.

Words near irriguous in the dictionary

  1. irrigator
  2. irrigatorial
  3. irrigators
  4. irrigatory
  5. irrigraphy
  6. irriguous
  7. irrinotecan
  8. irrisible
  9. irrision
  10. irrisions
  11. irrisistible

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: irriguous (page history and authors); irriguous (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “irriguous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/irriguous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.