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caliginous
[kuh-lij-uh-nuhs]
adjective
misty; dim; dark.
caliginous
/ əˈɪɪə /
adjective
archaicdark; dim
Other Word Forms
- caliginosity noun
- caliginousness noun
- caliginously adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of caliginous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of caliginous1
Example Sentences
A caliginous floating video of a glassy black horse eye blinks perpetually on the home page.
Her long small face looked back at her gravely under the caliginous head-dress, as she shook her head from side to side, to make it totter and tilt.
The only signpost was a list of names and room numbers tacked to a corkboard, so I found mine and rollerbagged down the building’s spooky, caliginous hallways until I tracked down my assigned spot.
To the first two movies' clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk, adds what has become a go-to staple of Hollywood fantasy: the retro-conspiracy theory.
Were one content, like Gibbon, to take one's history like snuff there would be to hand a mass of caliginous detail with which to cause shuddering in the unsuspecting reader.
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