caliginous

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   dark and misty and gloomy

   Similardark

Questions about caliginous

What does caliginous mean?

caliginous means "dark and misty and gloomy".

How many syllables are in caliginous?

caliginous has 4 syllables: ca-li-gi-nous. The stress falls on "li".

Is caliginous a common word?

caliginous 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.