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ululant

ululant adjective: howling; wailing.

Adjective

ululant (comparative more ululant, superlative most ululant)

  1. Howling; wailing.
    • A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies.1924, H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs”, in Weird Tales, volume 4, number 2
    • At the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, in some years its notes occasionally may be distinguished during intervals in the ululant chorus that resounds through the woods of a summer night — after the Bohemians have ceased ululating.1927, Joseph Mailliard, “Additional Breeding Records of the Spotted and Saw-whet Owls in California”, in The Condor, volume 29, page 160

Forms of ululant

comparativemore ululant
superlativemost ululant

Origin of ululant

Derived from Latin ululāns, present participle of ululō (“to howl”).

Questions about ululant

What does ululant mean?
Ululant means howling; wailing.
What part of speech is ululant?
Ululant is an adjective.

Words near ululant in the dictionary

  1. Ulugqat
  2. uluhe
  3. uluhi
  4. uluit
  5. Ulukışla
  6. ululant
  7. ululate
  8. ululated
  9. ululates
  10. ululating
  11. ululatingly

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