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cradlesome

cradlesome adjective: characterised or marked by cradling.

Adjective

cradlesome (comparative more cradlesome, superlative most cradlesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by cradling.
    • But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.1947, Crow Field, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.1956, The Marble Orchard

Forms of cradlesome

comparativemore cradlesome
superlativemost cradlesome

Origin of cradlesome

From cradle + -some.

Questions about cradlesome

What does cradlesome mean?
Cradlesome means characterised or marked by cradling.
What part of speech is cradlesome?
Cradlesome is an adjective.

Words near cradlesome in the dictionary

  1. cradler
  2. cradlers
  3. cradles
  4. cradlesful
  5. cradleside
  6. cradlesome
  7. cradlesong
  8. cradlesongs
  9. Cradley
  10. Cradley Heath
  11. cradling

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