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fulminant

[fuhl-muh-nuh nt]
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adjective
  1. occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity; fulminating.
  2. Pathology. developing or progressing suddenly: fulminant plague.

Origin of fulminant

1595–1605; < Latin fulminant- (stem of fulmināns), present participle of fulmināre to fulminate; see -ant
Related formsun·ful·mi·nant, adjective
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Related Words for fulminant

meteoric, frenzied, stormy, touchy, hazardous, ugly, violent, tense, fiery, unstable, uncontrollable, wild, charged, consequential, ebullient, forceful, impetuous, overwrought, perilous, raging

Examples from the Web for fulminant

Historical Examples of fulminant

  • Such cases are not so rare as they are thought, though they are seldom so fulminant.

    Psychotherapy

    James J. Walsh

  • The howl that would go up in the Diet, or the Reichstag, the fulminant denials by prince and king and government!

  • Thus we describe certain cases as ambulant, abortive, larval and fulminant.

    Plague

    Thomas Wright Jackson

  • In some cases, the fulminant fluid only attacks the colour of the hair of the animal.

    Thunder and Lightning

    Camille Flammarion

  • We also have the sadly familiar type described as the fulminant or, literally, "lightning-stroke" variety.

    Preventable Diseases

    Woods Hutchinson

British Dictionary definitions for fulminant

fulminant

adjective
  1. sudden and violent; fulminating
  2. pathol (of pain) sudden and sharp; piercing

Word Origin for fulminant

C17: from Latin fulmināre to cause lightning, from fulmen lightning that strikes
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Word Origin and History for fulminant
adj.

c.1600, from French fulminant or directly from Latin fulminantem (nominative fulminans), present participle of fulminare (see fulminate). As a noun from 1808.

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fulminant in Medicine

fulminant

[ful′mə-nənt, fŭl′-]
adj.
  1. Occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity, usually of pain.
Related formsful′mi•nat′ing (-nā′tĭng) adj.
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