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Definition of marmoreal in English: marmorealadjective mɑːˈmɔːrɪəlmɑrˈmɔriəl literary Made of or compared to marble. 〈诗/文〉大理石的；像大理石的 the marmoreal skin took on the flush of colour Example sentencesExamples - The Virgin's body and neck are dramatically attenuated, and her marmoreal forehead and glossy curls are decorated with ropes of pearls and an enormous ruby.
- A Victorian era adjective floats to mind: marmoreal, with its connotations of smoothness, paleness, and death.
- The oxymoronic ‘gripped undulation’ suggests the marmoreal petrifaction of a wave at the ‘salt margin’ of the sea; whilst the last two lines allegorise the image of a pilot ejecting from mortality.
- As such, his physique evokes the structure of bodybuilding's frontiersmen: marmoreal monsters who were as thick and deep as they were wide, because they defied their bodies rather than ‘listened to them.’
- The juxtaposition of very loud and very soft chords (with many pregnant pauses in between) creates a frozen or marmoreal effect.
- In the walls at the two sides of the high altar, there are two elegant small choirs in red marble, placed on marmoreal portal as well, and the two Chancels with big seventeenth century organs.
Derivativesadverb literary Marmoreally frigid at a first glance, it grows in warmth as we approach the main altar and the 17c painting found at Vinello. Example sentencesExamples - The evening began with Mozart's Linz Symphony, marmoreally lifeless, with a chilling smoothness to which one would have preferred any amount of wrong notes.
- Keith's house, on the other hand, is a tidy fortress of English propriety and composure, presided over by a marmoreally composed mother and patrolled by a jolly authoritarian of a father, who calls his son '‘old bean'’.
- It lacks the nostalgic tug of his early work and is not as marmoreally "tragic" as the later stuff.
- His face became marmoreally still, even as his eyes welled up and began to close.
OriginLate 18th century: from Latin marmoreus (from marmor 'marble') + -al. Rhymesaccessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, proprietorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial Definition of marmoreal in US English: marmorealadjectivemɑrˈmɔriəlmärˈmôrēəl literary Made of or likened to marble. 〈诗/文〉大理石的；像大理石的 the marmoreal skin took on the flush of color Example sentencesExamples - A Victorian era adjective floats to mind: marmoreal, with its connotations of smoothness, paleness, and death.
- The juxtaposition of very loud and very soft chords (with many pregnant pauses in between) creates a frozen or marmoreal effect.
- The oxymoronic ‘gripped undulation’ suggests the marmoreal petrifaction of a wave at the ‘salt margin’ of the sea; whilst the last two lines allegorise the image of a pilot ejecting from mortality.
- In the walls at the two sides of the high altar, there are two elegant small choirs in red marble, placed on marmoreal portal as well, and the two Chancels with big seventeenth century organs.
- The Virgin's body and neck are dramatically attenuated, and her marmoreal forehead and glossy curls are decorated with ropes of pearls and an enormous ruby.
- As such, his physique evokes the structure of bodybuilding's frontiersmen: marmoreal monsters who were as thick and deep as they were wide, because they defied their bodies rather than ‘listened to them.’
OriginLate 18th century: from Latin marmoreus (from marmor ‘marble’) + -al. |