Dark, gloomy, obscure, misty.[From Latin caliginosus (misty, dark).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=caliginous
"In March the cover got blown off of Brightly's caliginous caper."
Steve Mirsky; Academic Exams Taken by True And False People; Scientific American (Washington DC); Jun 2005.
If you're one of those folks, consider this week's words as an antique equivalent of the English language. Linguistically, they're called archaic terms. They were once everyday words, but today they reveal their age. They've that certain old-time flavor to them.
Not that these words show any wear and tear. They're still ready to serve, patiently waiting in the pages of dictionaries, even though labeled as senior citizens of the language. They haven't called it quits. They still have their shingles up. Verily I urge you to become better acquainted with them.
-Anu Garg
anu@wordsmith.org
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