lucifugous

1. 1.

   light-avoiding

   Synonymslucifugal

Questions about lucifugous

What does lucifugous mean?

lucifugous means "light-avoiding".

How many syllables are in lucifugous?

lucifugous has 4 syllables and divides as lu-ci-fu-gous 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.

What is another word for lucifugous?

Close synonyms include lucifugal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lucifugous a common word?

lucifugous 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.