sulphureous

sulphureous

English

Alternative forms

• sulfureous

Etymology

From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sʌlˈf(j)ɔːɹɪəs/

Adjective

sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)

1. (British spelling, now rare) Sulphurous.
   • 1754, Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue (page 46)

     Thy blazing hearths, / From deep sulphureous pits, consumeless stores / Of fuel boast.

   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:

     An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.

Derived terms

• sulphureously
• sulphureousness