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sulphurous

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Adjective

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sul=phur=ous

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sulphurous has 3 senses

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

Derived form noun sulphur₁

sulphurous(s = adj.all) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, 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"
sulphurous(s = adj.all) stifling, sulfurous, sultry - characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sulphurous, a. [L. sulphurosus, sulfurosus: cf. F. sulfureux.].

Of or pertaining to sulphur. [1913 Webster]
Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the sulphuric compounds. [1913 Webster]

Sulphurous acid. (a) Sulphur dioxide. See under Sulphur. [Obs.] (b) An acid, H2SO3, not known in the free state except as a solution of sulphur dioxide in water, but forming a well-known series of salts (the sulphites). -- Sulphurous anhydride (Chem.), sulphur dioxide. See under Sulphur.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sulphurous, adj. (US sulfurous)
1 relating to or suggestive of sulphur, esp. in colour.
2 Chem. containing quadrivalent sulphur.

Idiom

sulphurous acid an unstable weak acid used as a reducing and bleaching acid.

Etymology

L sulphurosus f. SULPHUR

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