Word Meanings - CALIGINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. Blount. The caliginous regions of the air. Hallywell. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CALIGINOUS)

• Hazy
• Foggy
• nebulous
• misty
• filmy
• gauzy
• cloudy
• murky
• caliginous

Related words: (words related to CALIGINOUS)

• CALIGINOUS
  Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. Blount. The caliginous regions of the air. Hallywell. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ness, n.
• MISTY
  1. Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere. 2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight. The more
• FILMY
  Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.
• FOGGY
  1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak. 2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.
• NEBULOUS
  Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness, n. (more info) 1. Cloudy; hazy; misty.
• MURKY
  Dark; obscure; gloomy. "The murkiest den." Shak. A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. Addison.
• GAUZY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
• CLOUDY
  1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky. 2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds. As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended. Ex. xxxiii. 9 3. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open