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MURMUROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does murmurous mean?
• MURMUROUS (adjective)
The adjective MURMUROUS has 1 sense:
1. characterized by soft sounds
Familiarity information: MURMUROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by soft sounds
Synonyms:
murmurous; rustling; soughing; susurrous
Context example:
a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines
Similar:
soft ((of sound) relatively low in volume)
Derivation:
murmur (a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech)
Context examples
They arrived at twilight and as we strolled out among the sparkling hundreds Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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