Showing posts with label fulgurating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fulgurating. Show all posts

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Fulgurating

"Its fulgurating pain comes out in shrieks of unlikely laughter."

I ran across this sentence (and the word "fulgurating") while reading a New York Times article.  It's unusual for me to run across a word that is totally new to me, so I looked it up.
fulgurating = (of pains) sharp and piercing; lightninglike, especially of sudden shooting pain (medical dictionary)
The question now, of course, is whether I'll remember this word when I need it.  Probably not, since I am not prone to sudden, sharp, piercing pain that hits me like lightning.