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fairsome

fairsome adjective: characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive.

Adjective

fairsome (comparative more fairsome, superlative most fairsome)

  1. Characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive
    • That love for which thy heart does burn / Is nought but foolish vanity. / A fairsome image was my choice; [...]1873, A. E. Kroeger, The Minnesinger of Germany
    • Yet still I love the fairsome — why? / For nothing but to please my eye: …1902, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

Forms of fairsome

comparativemore fairsome
superlativemost fairsome

Origin of fairsome

From fair + -some.

Questions about fairsome

What does fairsome mean?
Fairsome means characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive.
What part of speech is fairsome?
Fairsome is an adjective.

Words near fairsome in the dictionary

  1. fairplay
  2. Fairport
  3. fairs
  4. fairs off
  5. fairs up
  6. fairsome
  7. fairstead
  8. fairsteads
  9. Fairstein
  10. Fairsteins
  11. fairtime

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