adjective
- surrounding or encompassing on all sides
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The circumambient air grew thick with fog as evening approached.
- Fish depend on the circumambient water for oxygen and nutrients.
- The circumambient darkness made navigation nearly impossible.
- Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the circumambient atmosphere.
- The circumambient silence of the forest was broken only by birdsong.
- The circumambient temperature remained constant throughout the cave.