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bustlesome

bustlesome adjective: characterised or marked by bustling; full of activity.

Adjective

bustlesome (comparative more bustlesome, superlative most bustlesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by bustling; full of activity.
    • After a brief but bustlesome trial of my powers as a backgammoner, I took a back row, and she told people round about what she thought of me.1880, Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal

Forms of bustlesome

comparativemore bustlesome
superlativemost bustlesome

Origin of bustlesome

From bustle + -some.

Questions about bustlesome

What does bustlesome mean?
Bustlesome means characterised or marked by bustling; full of activity.
What part of speech is bustlesome?
Bustlesome is an adjective.

Words near bustlesome in the dictionary

  1. bustle
  2. bustled
  3. bustler
  4. bustlers
  5. bustles
  6. bustlesome
  7. bustleth
  8. bustlike
  9. bustline
  10. bustlines
  11. bustling

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