bituminous

1. 1.

   resembling or containing bitumen

   “bituminous coal”

Questions about bituminous

What does bituminous mean?

bituminous means "resembling or containing bitumen".

How many syllables are in bituminous?

bituminous has 4 syllables: bi-tu-mi-nous. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /bɪˈtumənəs/.

Is bituminous a common word?

bituminous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.