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crysome

crysome adjective: characterised by crying or weeping; tearful; lamentful.

Adjective

crysome (comparative more crysome, superlative most crysome)

  1. Characterised by crying or weeping; tearful; lamentful
    • His fancies are often as sweet and as heavenly, as those which "may make a crysome child to smile."1821, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review
    • In all the preceding years, with all my nieces and nephews, with Tegan herself, when a tiny person got crysome, I handed them back to the person responsible for them, secure in the knowledge that nothing I could do would appease them so I didn't have to try.2008, Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

Synonyms of crysome

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Forms of crysome

comparativemore crysome
superlativemost crysome

Origin of crysome

From cry + -some.

Questions about crysome

What does crysome mean?
Crysome means characterised by crying or weeping; tearful; lamentful.
What part of speech is crysome?
Crysome is an adjective.

Words near crysome in the dictionary

  1. crypts
  2. crypts of Lieberkühn
  3. crys
  4. cryse
  5. cryses
  6. crysome
  7. cryst.
  8. crystal
  9. crystal ball
  10. crystal balls
  11. Crystal Bay

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