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adj. - Characterized by soft sounds.

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Usage examples (4)
  • “Music is life,” added Lothero, susurrous as he spun on one foot.
  • I miss the electronic susurrous of the sum of human knowledge, underpinning reality.
  • There are some items missing: surely, if susurrar is onomatopoeic Spanish for rustle, the English equivalents, susurration, susurrant, susurrous, and susurrus should be...
  • In every garret, from every rafter, slowly swayed great susurrous bunches of withered herbs and simples awaiting expression and distillation, and dreaming perhaps of the...
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