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dronesome

dronesome adjective: characterised or marked by droning.

Adjective

dronesome (comparative more dronesome, superlative most dronesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by droning.
    • “It was that dronesome prefect, Williams-May. I got off lightly, actually. Thorpe was caught doing the same thing last night and got caned before breakfast.”2007, Eva Rice, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
    • From a cobweb-shrouded gaggle of dronesome mapmakers, the Department has been transformed and enlarged into a network of spies, all answering directly to Mrs. Fletcher as they comb all of England's cities and countryside.2013, K. W. Jeter, Fiendish Schemes

Forms of dronesome

comparativemore dronesome
superlativemost dronesome

Origin of dronesome

From drone + -some.

Questions about dronesome

What does dronesome mean?
Dronesome means characterised or marked by droning.
What part of speech is dronesome?
Dronesome is an adjective.

Words near dronesome in the dictionary

  1. drones on
  2. dronescape
  3. dronescapes
  4. droneship
  5. droneships
  6. dronesome
  7. Dronespace
  8. droneth
  9. droney
  10. Dronfield
  11. Dronfields

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