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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur;
[syn: sulfurous, sulphurous]

2. harsh or corrosive in tone;
- Example: "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"
- Example: "a barrage of acid comments"
- Example: "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"
- Example: "bitter words"
- Example: "blistering criticism"
- Example: "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"
- Example: "a sulfurous denunciation"
- Example: "a vitriolic critique"
[syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic]

3. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity;
- Example: "the summer was sultry and oppressive"
- Example: "the stifling atmosphere"
- Example: "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
[syn: sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sulfurous
    adj 1: of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from
           sulfur [syn: sulfurous, sulphurous]
    2: 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" [syn:
       acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering,
       caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent,
       vitriolic]
    3: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer
       was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the
       sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn:
       sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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