circumambient

Examples

• All

• Hail to thee, blithe turkey, whose exquisite odors now perfume the circumambient air.

  The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

• It's a voice that does something physical to me, that jumps out of the circumambient air and seizes hold of me like a thing that lives off the blood of other things.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The phrase was John Milton's, plucked from the air, or the circumambient language, at the height of his powers, to describe the beauty of the primordial coils of the insinuating serpent in the Paradise garden.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The artist captured the circumambient light of the sunset, highlighting how it surrounded the landscape.

• In the quiet library, the circumambient silence allowed her to focus deeply on her studies.

Synonyms

W

wraparound

vscircumambient

3 4.8

Going all the way around something to cover every side

is similar but focuses on general surrounding rather than full coverage

C

circumferential

vscircumambient

1 9.3

Around the outer edge of something, like a road around a city

is the full all-sides surrounding, not limited to the outer rim

E

encircling

vscircumambient

4.0

Surrounding something on all sides like a ring

is a general surrounding that need not be a perfect circle

E

encircled

vscircumambient

3.9

Surrounded on all sides by other things, often with no easy way out

is the neutral term for surrounding rather than the resulting state

C

circumfluent

vscircumambient

9.9

Moving around something on all sides, like water, mist, or people

is the static surrounding rather than one that moves or flows

E

encompassing

vscircumambient

4.7

Surrounding something on all sides

is the plain all-sides surrounding rather than focusing on boundary detail

C

circumferent

vscircumambient

9.9

Surrounding something on all sides, like walls around a town

is broader, applying to full surrounding even without a sharp boundary

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology