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vortiginous

Meaning of "vortiginous" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VORTIGINOUS

Variant of vertiginous.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF VORTIGINOUS

vɔːˈtɪdʒɪnəs


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 · caliginous · cauligenous · epigenous · epigynous · fuliginous · indigenous · lentiginous · nonindigenous · nubigenous · perigynous · polygynous · porriginous · serpiginous · tentiginous · terrigenous · trigynous · uliginous · vertiginous · vitelligenous

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

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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.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

vortiginous
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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vortiginous
570 millions of speakers
en

English

vortiginous
510 millions of speakers
hi

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vortiginous
380 millions of speakers
ar

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vortiginous
280 millions of speakers
ru

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vortiginous
278 millions of speakers
pt

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vortiginous
270 millions of speakers
bn

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vortiginous
260 millions of speakers
fr

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vortiginous
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Kurang ajar
190 millions of speakers
de

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vortiginous
180 millions of speakers
ja

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vortiginous
130 millions of speakers
ko

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vortiginous
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Vortiginous
85 millions of speakers
vi

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vortiginous
80 millions of speakers
ta

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சுழல்கிற
75 millions of speakers
mr

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भोवरा
75 millions of speakers
tr

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vortiginous
70 millions of speakers
it

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vortiginous
65 millions of speakers
pl

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vortiginous
50 millions of speakers
uk

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vortiginous
40 millions of speakers
ro

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vortiginous
30 millions of speakers
el

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vortiginous
15 millions of speakers
af

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vortiginous
14 millions of speakers
sv

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vortiginous
10 millions of speakers
no

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vortiginous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vortiginous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VORTIGINOUS»

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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
2
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
3
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
5
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
9
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>. May 2024 ».
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