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sulphury

sulphury is the alternative spelling of sulfury.

Meaning of sulfury

Adjective

sulfury (comparative more sulfury, superlative most sulfury)

  1. Having a colour similar to that of sulfur.
  2. Having a smell similar to that of sulfur compounds.

Forms of sulphury

comparativemore sulphury
superlativemost sulphury

Origin of sulphury

From sulphur + -y.

Questions about sulphury

What is sulphury the alternative spelling of?
Sulphury is the alternative spelling of sulfury.

Words near sulphury in the dictionary

  1. sulphurtransferase
  2. sulphurtransferases
  3. sulphurweed
  4. sulphurwort
  5. sulphurworts
  6. sulphury
  7. sulphuryl
  8. sulphurylase
  9. sulphurylases
  10. sulphuryls
  11. sulphydrate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphury (page history and authors); sulfury (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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