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Meaning of "vortiginous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VORTIGINOUS

Variant of vertiginous.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VORTIGINOUS

vortiginous  [vɔːˈtɪdʒɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VORTIGINOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vortiginous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES VORTIGINOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of vortiginous in the English dictionary

The definition of vortiginous in the dictionary is like a vortex; vortical; whirling.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VORTIGINOUS


cageyness
ˈkeɪdʒɪnəs
caliginous
kəˈlɪdʒɪnəs
cauligenous
kɔːˈlɪdʒɪnəs
epigenous
ɪˈpɪdʒɪnəs
epigynous
ɪˈpɪdʒɪnəs
fuliginous
fjuːˈlɪdʒɪnəs
indigenous
ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs
lentiginous
lɛnˈtɪdʒɪnəs
nonindigenous
ˌnɒnɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs
nubigenous
njuːˈbɪdʒɪnəs
perigynous
pəˈrɪdʒɪnəs
polygynous
pəˈlɪdʒɪnəs
porriginous
pəˈrɪdʒɪnəs
serpiginous
sɜːˈpɪdʒɪnəs
tentiginous
tɛnˈtɪdʒɪnəs
terrigenous
tɛˈrɪdʒɪnəs
trigynous
ˈtrɪdʒɪnəs
uliginous
juːˈlɪdʒɪnəs
vertiginous
vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs
vitelligenous
ˌvɪtəˈlɪdʒɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VORTIGINOUS

vorpal
Vorster
vortex
vortex drag
vortex ring
vortex shedding
vortex street
vortical
vortically
vorticella
vorticellae
vortices
vorticism
vorticist
vorticity
vorticose
vorticular

WORDS THAT END LIKE VORTIGINOUS

aluminous
bituminous
conterminous
coterminous
gelatinous
glutinous
heinous
luminous
mountainous
mucilaginous
mucinous
mutinous
nous
numinous
oleaginous
ominous
pulchritudinous
ruinous
spinous
villainous
voluminous

Synonyms and antonyms of vortiginous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «vortiginous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VORTIGINOUS

Find out the translation of vortiginous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vortiginous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vortiginous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

vortiginous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vortiginous
570 millions of speakers

English

vortiginous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

vortiginous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

vortiginous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

vortiginous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vortiginous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

vortiginous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vortiginous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurang ajar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vortiginous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

vortiginous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

vortiginous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vortiginous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vortiginous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுழல்கிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भोवरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vortiginous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vortiginous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

vortiginous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

vortiginous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vortiginous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

vortiginous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vortiginous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vortiginous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vortiginous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vortiginous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VORTIGINOUS»

The term «vortiginous» is normally little used and occupies the 144.188 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VORTIGINOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «vortiginous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «vortiginous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vortiginous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VORTIGINOUS»

Discover the use of vortiginous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vortiginous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A handbook of physical diagnosis: of diseases of the organs ...
This would allow space in the ampullae for the vortiginous or eddying movement of the blood, as mentioned. According to Gruttmann, venous hum is also heard more frequently and with greater intensity on the patient's left side of the neck, ...
Richard Channing Moore Page, 1891
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The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical ...
What solid was, by transformation strange, Grows fluid; and the fix'd and rooted earth, 100 Tormented into billows, heaves and swells, Or with vortiginous and hideous whirl Sucks down its prey insatiable. Immense The tumult and the ...
William Cowper, 1856
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Mercantile Speller: Containing the Correct Ways of Spelling ...
432 [Vortiginous. Viviparous Void voltaplast viviparity, or voided voltatype viviparousness voiding Voltigeur Vivisection voidable Voltzine, or vivisectionist voidance Voltzite vivisector voider Volubility Vixen voidness voluble vixenish Volant ...
‎1889
4
A text-book of the practice of medicine for the use of ...
Guttmann, of Berlin, attributes venous hum to the vortiginous movement of blood in the ampullae or bulbs at the junction of the jugular veins, for instance. These ampullae or bulbs being adherent to surrounding connective tissue, remain the ...
Richard Channing Moore Page, 1896
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The Classical Journal
The expressions applied to the Scamander in the 21st Rook, " the great river with deep whirlpools, the vortiginous Scamander, the wide-flowing impetuous river, which inundated the plain, and bore away men and horses in its floods," would ...
‎1823
6
The Task, Table Talk, and Other Poems of William Cowper
What solid was, by transformation strange, Grows fluid ; and the fix'd and rooted earth, 100 Tormented into billows, heaves and swells, Or with vortiginous and hideous whirl Sucks down its prey insatiable. Immense The tumult and the ...
William Cowper, 1857
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Mercantile speller: containing the correct ways of spelling ...
432 [VORTIGINOUS. Viviparous viviparity, or viviparousness Vivisection vivisection ist Avisee tor Vixen vixenish vixenly Viz* Vizier vizierial, or vizirial vizieriate Vocable vocabulary vocabulist Vocal vocalic vocalise, or vocalize vocalised, ...
Eugenia Barrie, 1900
8
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
Similarly, Richard Terry thinks that Cowper's evocation of the Sicilian earthquake, with its 'vortiginous and hideous whirl' (ii. 102), is a case of 'comically inflated Miltonics' constituting a 'parody of Milton'. 136 But 'vortiginous', meaning 'moving  ...
Ritchie Robertson, 2009
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Book of English epithets, literal and figurative: with ...
Pope. Homer, Iliad, Book XXI. line 7 H Vortiginous . they came at length where Xanthus winds His stream vortiginous . . Cowper. Homer, Iliad, Book XXI. line 2 Winding . . Lycia's ample shores, where Xanthus leads His winding waters through ...
James Jermyn, 1840
10
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: ...
flowing from Idean Jove2 MErAS IIOTAMOS BA0YAINH2, ' the great vortiginous rivers ; ' bearing on its giddy tide the body of Polydorus to the sea* ;* ' the angry Scamander5.' The springs by which Achilles pursues Hector were two fountains6,  ...
Edward Daniel Clarke, 1817

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Vortiginous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/vortiginous>. Apr 2024 ».
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