foudroyant
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
foudroyant (comparative more foudroyant, superlative most foudroyant)
- 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 […]
- (medicine) fulminant
French edit
Etymology edit
From foudroyer.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
foudroyant (feminine foudroyante, masculine plural foudroyants, feminine plural foudroyantes)
- (figurative) rapid
- (figurative) devastating
- (medicine) fulminant; fatal, deadly (coming on quickly and destructively)
- Il a contracté une méningite foudroyante.
- He contracted a fulminant meningitis.
Participle edit
foudroyant
Further reading edit
- “foudroyant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
foudroyant (strong nominative masculine singular foudroyanter, not comparable)
Declension edit
Positive forms of foudroyant (uncomparable)
Further reading edit
- “foudroyant” in Duden online