circumambient
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Definition of circumambient
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Including all aspects of; encompassing.
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adj
- Including all aspects of; encompassing.
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Surrounding.
“Thus gaiety and cheerfulness prevail, / Spreading from young to old, from old to young, / And no one seems to want his share.—Immense / Is the recess, the circumambient world / Magnificent, by which they are embraced: […]”
“Philip seemed really to be born again. He breathed the circumambient air as though he had never breathed it before, and he took a child's pleasure in all the facts of the world.”
“Groups of citizens—broad-browed Roman colonists and coarse-haired Romanised natives, together with obvious hybrids of the two strains, alike clad in cheap woollen togas—and sprinklings of helmeted legionaries and coarse-mantled, black-bearded tribesmen of the circumambient Vascones—all thronged the few paved streets and forum; moved by some vague and ill-defined uneasiness.”
“The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts.”
adv
- In a circumambient manner.
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Etymology
From Latin circum (“around”) + ambiō, from amb- (“both side”) + eō (“go”), literally "go on both sides of". Synchronically circum- + ambient.
Words you can make from circumambient
200+ playable · top: ACCUMBENT (17 pts)
Best play accumbent 17 points9-letter words
14 words8-letter words
26 words- INCUMBER 14 pts
- ACENTRIC 12 pts
- ACTINIUM 12 pts
- BACTERIN 12 pts
- CINCTURE 12 pts
- CRUCIATE 12 pts
- CUNEATIC 12 pts
- EUCRITIC 12 pts
- IMMATURE 12 pts
- INCUBATE 12 pts
- MAIEUTIC 12 pts
- MANICURE 12 pts
- MARITIME 12 pts
- MURICATE 12 pts
- NEUMATIC 12 pts
- RABIETIC 12 pts
- RAMENTUM 12 pts
- URINEMIC 12 pts
- ANURETIC 10 pts
- BRAUNITE 10 pts
- MINUTIAE 10 pts
- NEURITIC 10 pts
- RUMINATE 10 pts
- URANITIC 10 pts
- URBANITE 10 pts
- URINEMIA 10 pts
7-letter words
77 words- CAMBIUM 15 pts
- CAMBRIC 15 pts
- ACERBIC 13 pts
- BRECCIA 13 pts
- CERAMIC 13 pts
- CRUMMIE 13 pts
- MIMETIC 13 pts
- MINICAB 13 pts
- MINICAM 13 pts
- RACEMIC 13 pts
- ACTINIC 11 pts
- AMBIENT 11 pts
- AMENTUM 11 pts
- BITUMEN 11 pts
- BRUCINE 11 pts
- BRUCITE 11 pts
- CABINET 11 pts
- CARBINE 11 pts
- CARMINE 11 pts
- CENTRIC 11 pts
- CENTRUM 11 pts
- CERIMAN 11 pts
- CIRCUIT 11 pts
- CRANIUM 11 pts
- CREMINI 11 pts
- CRIMINE 11 pts
- CRUCIAN 11 pts
- CUMARIN 11 pts
- ICTERIC 11 pts
- IMBRUTE 11 pts
- IMMUNER 11 pts
- MANTRIC 11 pts
- MANUMIT 11 pts
- MARMITE 11 pts
- MINCIER 11 pts
- MINIBAR 11 pts
- MINICAR 11 pts
- NEMATIC 11 pts
- NUMERIC 11 pts
- NUMMIER 11 pts
- TERBIUM 11 pts
- UNBRACE 11 pts
- URAEMIC 11 pts
- AIRTIME 9 pts
- AMIRITE 9 pts
- CENTAUR 9 pts
- CERATIN 9 pts
- CERTAIN 9 pts
- CITRINE 9 pts
- CREATIN 9 pts
- CRINITE 9 pts
- CURTAIN 9 pts
- INCITER 9 pts
- INTERIM 9 pts
- INTIMAE 9 pts
- MARTINI 9 pts
- MINARET 9 pts
- MINTIER 9 pts
- MINUTER 9 pts
- MINUTIA 9 pts
- MURIATE 9 pts
- NATRIUM 9 pts
- NERITIC 9 pts
- RAIMENT 9 pts
- TACRINE 9 pts
- TERMINI 9 pts
- TRIBUNE 9 pts
- TUNICAE 9 pts
- TURBINE 9 pts
- UNCRATE 9 pts
- UNMITER 9 pts
- UNMITRE 9 pts
- INERTIA 7 pts
- RUINATE 7 pts
- TAURINE 7 pts
- URANITE 7 pts
- URINATE 7 pts
6-letter words
82 words- AMEBIC 12 pts
- BUMMER 12 pts
- CABMEN 12 pts
- CAECUM 12 pts
- CAMBER 12 pts
- CAMMIE 12 pts
- CRAMBE 12 pts
- CUMBER 12 pts
- CUMBIA 12 pts
- CUMMER 12 pts
- CUMMIN 12 pts
- IAMBIC 12 pts
- ACCENT 10 pts
- ACCRUE 10 pts
- ACETIC 10 pts
- ACETUM 10 pts
- ACINIC 10 pts
- ACUMEN 10 pts
- AECIUM 10 pts
- AMINIC 10 pts
- AMMINE 10 pts
- ANEMIC 10 pts
- ARCTIC 10 pts
- BARIUM 10 pts
- BARMEN 10 pts
- BARMIE 10 pts
- BATMEN 10 pts
- BRUCIN 10 pts
- CANCER 10 pts
- CANTIC 10 pts
- CARIBE 10 pts
- CARMEN 10 pts
- CENTUM 10 pts
- CERIUM 10 pts
- CINEMA 10 pts
- CITRIC 10 pts
- CRETIC 10 pts
- CRINUM 10 pts
- CRITIC 10 pts
- CUBITI 10 pts
- ERBIUM 10 pts
- ICEMAN 10 pts
- IMBRUE 10 pts
- IMMANE 10 pts
- IMMUNE 10 pts
- IMMURE 10 pts
- INCUBI 10 pts
- ACETIN 8 pts
- ACUTER 8 pts
- AIRMEN 8 pts
- ANTRUM 8 pts
- ANURIC 8 pts
- ARBUTE 8 pts
- ATRIUM 8 pts
- BAITER 8 pts
- BANTER 8 pts
- BARITE 8 pts
- BINATE 8 pts
- BRUNET 8 pts
- BUNTER 8 pts
- BURNET 8 pts
- BURNIE 8 pts
- BUTANE 8 pts
- CANTER 8 pts
- CARNET 8 pts
- CARNIE 8 pts
- CENTAI 8 pts
- CENTRA 8 pts
- CITRIN 8 pts
- CRETIN 8 pts
- CURATE 8 pts
- CURIAE 8 pts
- CURITE 8 pts
- ENATIC 8 pts
- ETAMIN 8 pts
- IATRIC 8 pts
- IMARET 8 pts
- INCITE 8 pts
- INMATE 8 pts
- INTIMA 8 pts
- INTIME 8 pts
- AUNTIE 6 pts
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