vampiric
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- adjective
- /væmˈpɪrɪk/
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vampírico
- The film's dark atmosphere and eerie music created a vampiric ambiance that captivated the audience.
- vampiric woman
Examples
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The politics of power and influence are heady enough; add to that the layer of vampiric eternal life and inhuman sensibilities, and you have the makings for some mighty nasty games being played.
Blog text (31) -
That happened once to Vlad's vampiric son Arnie, and the Master still told the story as a cautionary tale to baby vampires.
Fiction book (2000) -
Ten years after the 2009 outbreak, vampiric wildlife wandering into the sunlight has become the number one cause of forest fires throughout the nation.
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When vampiric folklore has been exhausted, it's time to move to witches.
Blog text (31) -
His supernatural vampiric powers are sexy, all right, but his desire to control them for her turns out to be even more alluring.
Blog text (22) -
The next time the vampiric women laugh, Stoker describes it as a "soulless laughter" (46).
Academic text (2017) -
I have spent my centuries of vampiric existence in clever, observant roaming and study, never provoking the slightest danger from my own kind, and never arousing their knowledge or suspicions.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some modern scholars have linked the legend to vampiric symptoms of diseases like rabies and porphyria (a rare genetic disorder that can cause extreme sensitivity to sunlight and turn teeth reddish-brown).
Blog text (1) -
He authorized his loved ones' exhumation, the Journal says, simply to "satisfy the neighbors," who were, according to another newspaper account, "worrying the life out of him"—a description with its own vampiric overtones.
Blog text (1) -
Everything on our list is either a god—and I can't believe there's a god running around out there, sucking the souls out of scuzzy bus passengers—or something vampiric.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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Having a bold, sexy, and dramatic style like a glamorous, dangerous woman
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Looking or moving like a vampire, with pale skin and dark clothes
How Vampiric
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vampiric comes from the word vampire, which entered English from Slavic languages to name a creature that 'sucks blood'. So when a place, outfit, or story feels dark, fanged and eerie, we call it 'vampiric'.