What does circumambient mean?
Circumambient means Including all aspects of; encompassing..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Including all aspects of; encompassing..
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.
Use circumambient when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Circumambient means Including all aspects of; encompassing..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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: […]
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