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sibilous

sibilous adjective: having a hissing sound; sibilant.

Adjective

sibilous (comparative more sibilous, superlative most sibilous)

  1. Having a hissing sound; sibilant.
    • a sibilous rattle
    • In the height of summer it [the grasshopper warbler] chirps the whole night: its sibilous note is observed to cease about the latter end of Jul1812, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology

Forms of sibilous

comparativemore sibilous
superlativemost sibilous

Origin of sibilous

Latin sibilus.

Questions about sibilous

What does sibilous mean?
Sibilous means having a hissing sound; sibilant.
What part of speech is sibilous?
Sibilous is an adjective.

Words near sibilous in the dictionary

  1. sibilatory
  2. Sibilia
  3. Sibilias
  4. sibilities
  5. sibility
  6. sibilous
  7. Sibinj
  8. Sibir
  9. sibirene
  10. sibiricoside
  11. Sibirid

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