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tumulous

tumulous adjective: full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

Adjective

tumulous (comparative more tumulous, superlative most tumulous)

  1. Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
    • Tumulous waves1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Forms of tumulous

comparativemore tumulous
superlativemost tumulous

Origin of tumulous

From Latin tumulōsus (“full of hills or hillocks, hilly”) (whence -ous), tumulus (“mound, hill, hillock”) + -ōsus, from tumeō (“to swell”).

Questions about tumulous

What does tumulous mean?
Tumulous means full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
What part of speech is tumulous?
Tumulous is an adjective.

Words near tumulous in the dictionary

  1. tumulations
  2. tumuli
  3. tumulose
  4. tumulosities
  5. tumulosity
  6. tumulous
  7. tumult
  8. tumulted
  9. tumulter
  10. tumulters
  11. tumulting

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