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Adjective sulfurous has 3 senses

• sulfurous(a = adj.pert) sulphurous - of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur; Array
Derived form noun sulfur₁

• sulfurous(s = adj.all) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic - harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"
• sulfurous(s = adj.all) stifling, sulphurous, sultry - characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"

THESAURUS

sulfurous

Acherontic, Lethean, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, alabastrine, asbestine, bad, bad-smelling, chthonian, chthonic, devilish, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graphitic, graveolent, hellborn, hellish, high, ill-smelling, infernal, inorganic, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, micaceous, mildewed, mildewy, mineral, moldy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, pandemoniac, pandemonic, petrified, purgatorial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, silicic, smellful, smelling, smelly, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfuric, vile

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