Usually means: Striking with great intensity, speed.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. foudroyant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. foudroyant: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Foudroyant, foudroyant: Wordnik
  4. foudroyant: Wiktionary
  5. foudroyant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. foudroyant: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. foudroyant: Dictionary.com
  8. foudroyant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  9. foudroyant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Foudroyant: World Wide Words

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foudroyant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foudroyant: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foudroyant)

▸ adjective:  Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) fulminant

Similar:
overwhelming, overpowering, full on, sweeping, thundering, fulgurous, crushing, daunting, overpowerful, fulminatory, more...

Opposite:
unimpressive, dull, lackluster, unremarkable

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Similar:
overwhelming, overpowering, full on, sweeping, thundering, fulgurous, crushing, daunting, overpowerful, fulminatory, more...

Opposite:
unimpressive, dull, lackluster, unremarkable



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