cumulous

1. 1.

   thrown together in a pile

   “a desk heaped with books”

   “heaped-up ears of corn”

   “ungraded papers piled high”

   Similarconcentrated

Questions about cumulous

What does cumulous mean?

cumulous means "thrown together in a pile".

How many syllables are in cumulous?

cumulous has 3 syllables and divides as cu-mu-lous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cumulous a common word?

cumulous 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.