Brumous vs Nebulous - What's the difference?
brumous | nebulous | Related terms |
Foggy or misty; wintry.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 23:
In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
Vague or ill-defined.
* 1915 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Relating to a nebula or nebulae.
Brumous is a related term of nebulous.
As adjectives the difference between brumous and nebulous
is that brumous is foggy or misty; wintry while nebulous is in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.brumous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline [...].
nebulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.
