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sulphurous

sulphurous is the alternative spelling of sulfurous.

Meaning of sulfurous

Adjective

sulfurous (comparative more sulfurous, superlative most sulfurous)

  1. (US) Containing sulfur.
    • It must be so—I will arise and waken
      The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill,
      Which on a sudden from its snows had shaken
      The swoon of ages, it shall burst, and fill
      The world with cleansing fire; it must, it will—
      It may not be restrained!1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...
  2. Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its lower oxidation state.

Forms of sulphurous

comparativemore sulphurous
superlativemost sulphurous

Words formed from sulphurous

Questions about sulphurous

What is sulphurous the alternative spelling of?
Sulphurous is the alternative spelling of sulfurous.

Words near sulphurous in the dictionary

  1. sulphurized
  2. sulphurizes
  3. sulphurizing
  4. sulphurless
  5. sulphurlike
  6. sulphurous
  7. sulphurous acid
  8. sulphurously
  9. sulphurousness
  10. sulphurs
  11. sulphursome

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