murmurous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite characterized by soft sounds
    susurrous; soughing; rustling.
    • a murmurous brook
    • a soughing wind in the pines
    • a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren

WordNet


Mur"mur*ous adjective
Etymology
Cf. L. murmuriosus, OF. murmuros.
Definitions
  1. Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. Archaic or Poetic
    The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.

Webster 1913