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ficklesome

ficklesome adjective: characterised or marked by fickleness.

Adjective

ficklesome (comparative more ficklesome, superlative most ficklesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by fickleness.
    • "Cut, then stain with blossom juice from Blood-of-Christ bush. Sew pieces together with rose thorn needle. Hammer heel into sole with hawthorn nails. Polish with twelve drops of faery spit." 'Twas a ficklesome job, and she'd already broken two fingernails.2001, Mary E. Lyons, Knockabeg

Forms of ficklesome

comparativemore ficklesome
superlativemost ficklesome

Origin of ficklesome

From fickle + -some.

Questions about ficklesome

What does ficklesome mean?
Ficklesome means characterised or marked by fickleness.
What part of speech is ficklesome?
Ficklesome is an adjective.

Words near ficklesome in the dictionary

  1. fickled
  2. fickleness
  3. ficklenesses
  4. fickler
  5. fickles
  6. ficklesome
  7. ficklest
  8. fickleties
  9. ficklety
  10. Ficklin
  11. fickling

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