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bleaksome

bleaksome adjective: characterised or marked by bleakness; bleak.

Adjective

bleaksome (comparative more bleaksome, superlative most bleaksome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by bleakness; bleak
    • He heedeth not the bleaksome air /Whilst to his work he doth repair; [...]1842, George King Matthews, Poems: to which is added, Belmont house, a play
    • No student will be seen, / White-coated, fresh and green, / Trampling those bleaksome steps with groanings loud.1901, St. Mary's Hospital Gazette

Forms of bleaksome

comparativemore bleaksome
superlativemost bleaksome

Origin of bleaksome

From bleak + -some.

Questions about bleaksome

What does bleaksome mean?
Bleaksome means characterised or marked by bleakness; bleak.
What part of speech is bleaksome?
Bleaksome is an adjective.

Words near bleaksome in the dictionary

  1. bleakly
  2. bleakness
  3. bleaknesses
  4. bleakonomics
  5. bleaks
  6. bleaksome
  7. bleaky
  8. Blean
  9. blear
  10. blear eye
  11. bleared

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