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dearsome

dearsome adjective: characterised or marked by dearness; precious; costly.

Adjective

dearsome (comparative more dearsome, superlative most dearsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by dearness; precious; costly
    • See, if you don't cut that rope, inside o' three moons your dearsome fam'ly be dead, I vow it!2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
    • Standing, a dearsome almond tree [...]2014, Rita Joyce Singh, Not Done with Loving Yet

Forms of dearsome

comparativemore dearsome
superlativemost dearsome

Origin of dearsome

From dear + -some.

Questions about dearsome

What does dearsome mean?
Dearsome means characterised or marked by dearness; precious; costly.
What part of speech is dearsome?
Dearsome is an adjective.

Words near dearsome in the dictionary

  1. dearsenicates
  2. dearsenicating
  3. dearsenication
  4. dearsenicator
  5. dearsenicators
  6. dearsome
  7. dearterialization
  8. dearterializations
  9. dearterialize
  10. dearth
  11. dearthful

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