foudroyant

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/fuˈdɹɔɪənt/

adjective

Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.

OriginFrench foudroyant →
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Meanings

adjectivefoudroyant (comparative more foudroyant, superlative most foudroyant)

comparative more foudroyant · superlative most foudroyant

  1. Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.

    […] 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 […]

    1968, W. H. Auden, “The Horatians”, in Collected Poems, Modern Library, published 2007, page 773
  2. medicinefulminant

Origin

  1. Frenchfoudroyant
  2. Frenchfoudroyant
  3. Englishfoudroyant

Borrowed from French foudroyant.

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APA

foudroyant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foudroyant

MLA

“foudroyant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foudroyant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foudroyant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foudroyant.

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