Definition of Rumorous

1. a. Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors.

Definition of Rumorous

1. Adjective. Indistinct or confounded in sound; murmuring; vaguely heard. ¹

2. Adjective. Of the natures of rumours; circulated by popular report. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rumorous

1. full of rumors [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumorous

rumor
rumor-monger
rumor campaign
rumor has it
rumor mill
rumor monger
rumored
rumoredly
rumorer
rumoring
rumormonger
rumormongered
rumormongering
rumormongerings
rumormongers
rumorous (current term)
rumors
rumour
rumour'd
rumour campaign
rumour has it
rumour mill
rumour mills
rumoured
rumouredly
rumourer
rumourers
rumouring
rumourmonger
rumourmongered

Literary usage of Rumorous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1903)
"18. A bustling rumour. Here rumour = murmur, noise. Cf. K. John, v. 4. 45 : " the noise and rumour of the field." Drayton uses rumorous similarly: " the ..."

2. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe (1881)
"Cf. K.John, v. 4: "the noise and rumour of the field." Drayton uses rumorous similarly : "the rumorous sound Of the sterne ..."

3. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"At his rugge bones end. Piers Ploughman. Hilly, obedient; as good and necessary a word as unruly, which remains in the language. rumorous, murmurous. ..."

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