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diresome

diresome adjective: characterised or marked by direness; dire.

Adjective

diresome (comparative more diresome, superlative most diresome)

  1. Characterised or marked by direness; dire.
    • The Secretary may enclose the most pleading note with that transcript or may make the most diresome and awful threats, but your average participant serenely pursues his way and leaves the Secretary to his troubles and gladly makes him a present of his own into the bargain and all the Secretary can...1913, Bernhard Conrad Hesse, Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry
    • An event: It is the first day of 'Id al-Fitr, the Islamic festival of fast-breaking, and all the children are out playing in the streets, and so are all the traditional vampires, who make a living out of sucking the blood of their parents' faces on this most holy occasion, in these most appalling...2013, Ammar Abdulhamid, Menstruation

Forms of diresome

comparativemore diresome
superlativemost diresome

Origin of diresome

From dire + -some.

Questions about diresome

What does diresome mean?
Diresome means characterised or marked by direness; dire.
What part of speech is diresome?
Diresome is an adjective.

Words near diresome in the dictionary

  1. direptions
  2. direr
  3. Dires
  4. diresidue
  5. diresidues
  6. diresome
  7. direst
  8. diretmid
  9. diretmids
  10. direwolf
  11. direwolves

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