sulfurous
adj 1: 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" [syn: acerb,
acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic,
sulphurous, venomous, virulent, vitriolic]
2: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer
was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere";
"the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn:
sultry, stifling, sulphurous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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