Meanings
adjectivefluvial (not comparable)
- not comparableOf, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store.
2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45Synonyms: fluviatile, riverine
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
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Arabic نَهْرِيّ
- نَهْرِيّ (nahriyy)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Bulgarian ре́чен
- ре́чен (réčen)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Chinese Mandarin 河流的
- 河流的 (héliú de)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Czech říční
- říčníof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Danish flod-
- flod-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Finnish joki-, virta-
- joki-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- virta-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- fluviaalinenof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
French fluvial
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
German Fluss-, fluvial
- Fluss-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Greek ποτάμιος
- ποτάμιος (potámios)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Hungarian folyami, folyó-
- folyamiof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- folyó-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Irish abhann, dobhar-
- abhannof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- dobhar-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- sruthaof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- aibhneachof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Italian fluviale
- fluvialeof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Latin fluviālis
- fluviālisof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Lithuanian upinis
- upinisof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Norwegian Bokmål fluvial
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Polish rzeczny
- rzecznyof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Portuguese fluvial
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Romanian fluvial
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Russian речно́й
- речно́й (rečnój)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Slovak riečny
- riečnyof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Spanish fluvial
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Swedish fluvial, älv-
- fluvialof, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- älv-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- flod-of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
Ukrainian річни́й, річкови́й
- річни́й (ričnýj)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
- річкови́й (ričkovýj)of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
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APA
fluvial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluvial
MLA
“fluvial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluvial. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fluvial,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluvial.
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