foudroyant

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French foudroyant.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: fo͞o-droi'ənt, IPA(key): /fuˈdɹɔɪənt/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

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foudroyant (comparative more foudroyant, superlative most foudroyant)

  1. Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
    • 1968, W. H. Auden, “The Horatians”, in Collected Poems, Modern Library, published 2007, page 773:
      [] As makers go, / compared with Pindar or any / of the great foudroyant masters who don't ever / amend, we are, for all our polish, of little / stature []
  2. (medicine) fulminant

French

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Etymology

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From foudroyer.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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foudroyant (feminine foudroyante, masculine plural foudroyants, feminine plural foudroyantes)

  1. (figurative) rapid
  2. (figurative) devastating
  3. (medicine) fulminant; fatal, deadly (coming on quickly and destructively)
    Il a contracté une méningite foudroyante.
    He contracted a fulminant meningitis.

Participle

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foudroyant

  1. present participle of foudroyer

Further reading

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French foudroyant.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [fudro̯aˈjant]
  • Hyphenation: fou‧dro‧yant
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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foudroyant (strong nominative masculine singular foudroyanter, not comparable)

  1. (medicine) fulminant

Declension

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