fulgurating

1. 1.

   sharp and piercing

   Similarsharp

   medicine

Questions about fulgurating

What does fulgurating mean?

fulgurating means "sharp and piercing".

How many syllables are in fulgurating?

fulgurating has 4 syllables and divides as ful-gu-ra-ting 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 fulgurating a common word?

fulgurating 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.