caliginous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- caliginosity noun
- caliginously adverb
- caliginousness noun
Etymology
Origin of caliginous
1540–50; < Latin cālīginōsus misty, equivalent to cālīgin- (stem of cālīgō ) mist + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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A caliginous floating video of a glassy black horse eye blinks perpetually on the home page.
From New York Times
Her long small face looked back at her gravely under the caliginous head-dress, as she shook her head from side to side, to make it totter and tilt.
From Project Gutenberg
The only signpost was a list of names and room numbers tacked to a corkboard, so I found mine and rollerbagged down the building’s spooky, caliginous hallways until I tracked down my assigned spot.
From New York Times
To the first two movies' clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk, adds what has become a go-to staple of Hollywood fantasy: the retro-conspiracy theory.
From Time
Were one content, like Gibbon, to take one's history like snuff there would be to hand a mass of caliginous detail with which to cause shuddering in the unsuspecting reader.
From Project Gutenberg
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