Sulfurous

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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