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Meaning of polyphloisbic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering.

poetic

Examples

“1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518. Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

polyphobic polyphonal polyphonemic polyphonic polyphonical polyphonous