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cluttersome

cluttersome adjective: characterised or marked by clutter.

Adjective

cluttersome (comparative more cluttersome, superlative most cluttersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by clutter.
    • Endless repetition of the term "lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals” would be cluttersome.1996, Mark Hertzog, The Lavender Vote
    • [...] anything up to ten papyri may have to be cited for a given reading – this has become too cluttersome.2001, Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad
    Synonyms:
    clutterous

Examples of cluttersome in a sentence

  • That would only be a cluttersome distraction; instead, visual feedback is limited to indicating which couplers are active.2014, Jonathan Follett, Designing for Emerging Technologies:
  • If you wish to leave your affairs in rotten mishmashy cluttersome disarray . . .2014, Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father:

Synonyms of cluttersome

Forms of cluttersome

comparativemore cluttersome
superlativemost cluttersome

Origin of cluttersome

From clutter + -some.

Questions about cluttersome

What does cluttersome mean?
Cluttersome means characterised or marked by clutter.
How do you use cluttersome in a sentence?
That would only be a cluttersome distraction; instead, visual feedback is limited to indicating which couplers are active.
What part of speech is cluttersome?
Cluttersome is an adjective.

Words near cluttersome in the dictionary

  1. clutterless
  2. clutterlessness
  3. clutterous
  4. clutters
  5. clutters up
  6. cluttersome
  7. cluttery
  8. Clutton
  9. Cluttons
  10. Clutts
  11. Cluttses

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