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Murmurous

Murmurous \Mur"mur*ous\, a. [Cf. L. murmuriosus, OF. murmuros.] Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic]

The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings.
--Tennyson.

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murmurous

a. low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur.

WordNet
murmurous

adj. characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren [syn: rustling, soughing, susurrous]

Usage examples of "murmurous".

I thought of my mother in her coffin beneath the ground, of the profound silence that must reign in that dark space, broken only by the sounds of decomposition, or perhaps the echoes of footfalls from above, faint, murmurous voices carrying on one-sided conversations as the flesh melted from her bones and her bones crumbled to dust, until all that was left of her was held in the air like a last breath never to be released, a final secret forever unwhispered to any living soul.

Bird and insect sounds through the open French doors did not obscure the murmurous voices.

I tried to work up a salacious interest, I schemed at it in fact, but she was artless, open and bland, so detached from the murmurous subcurrents, the system of images, that I gave it up.

Some orchards were still in blossom, and the great wild bees, hunting over flowers and grasses warm to their touch, kept the air deeply murmurous.

Passing his father's closed door on tiptoe, Bibbs heard a murmurous sound, and paused to listen.

But that morning Farrell thought the house was like a green tree, and the rooms were branches, high and light and murmurous with the sounds that wood makes in the sun.

And she was down here, laughing like a giddy girl amid the murmurous sounds of water dripping, falling, sliding, water infusing and creating Joy's Castle even as she stood there.

The night was murmurous with the voices of girls who threw their youth away and got the screaming meemies at three or four a.

She hears missis Savage and missis Wells make murmurous sympathetic sounds but she doesn't look up.

The ocean was not a green-black heaving turbulence, by a crystalline turquoise blue, gentle and murmurous.