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badsome

badsome adjective: markedly bad; characteristically bad.

Adjective

badsome (comparative more badsome, superlative most badsome)

  1. Markedly bad; characteristically bad
    • What makes people gladsome? Good instead of badsome? Doing all the kindly things / On which true joy depends.1972, Patrici C Clapp, The Invisible Dragon
    • "Not badsome," he thought, and laughed as he fell asleep.2003, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, John L. Coulehan, Chekhov's Doctors

Forms of badsome

comparativemore badsome
superlativemost badsome

Origin of badsome

From bad + -some.

Questions about badsome

What does badsome mean?
Badsome means markedly bad; characteristically bad.
What part of speech is badsome?
Badsome is an adjective.

Words near badsome in the dictionary

  1. bads
  2. bads up
  3. Badsey
  4. badshah
  5. badshahs
  6. badsome
  7. badtempered
  8. badthink
  9. Badu
  10. Badua
  11. Baduanjin

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