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friendsome

friendsome adjective: indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.

Adjective

friendsome (comparative more friendsome, superlative most friendsome)

  1. (colloquial, usually) Indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
    • Everyone outside my mother called father Eben. Father looked up and smiled. He and Miss Bet had been terrible friendsome ever since the day when, as a tiddleliwinkie snip o' a child [...]1901, Gwendoline Keats, Tales of Dunstáble Weir - Page 130
    • He was long-married hisownself, real friendsome, and his smile wasn't aimed at me, it was to match my own.2000, Randall Beth Platt, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko - Page 156

Forms of friendsome

comparativemore friendsome
superlativemost friendsome

Origin of friendsome

From Middle English frendsome, equivalent to friend + -some (adjective). Compare Scots friendsome (“friendly”), Dutch vriendzaam (“friendly”), German freundsam (“friendly”).

Words formed from friendsome

Questions about friendsome

What does friendsome mean?
Friendsome means indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
What part of speech is friendsome?
Friendsome is an adjective.

Words near friendsome in the dictionary

  1. friendslist
  2. friendslists
  3. friendslop
  4. Friendsmas
  5. Friendsmases
  6. friendsome
  7. friendsomeness
  8. Friendster
  9. Friendsters
  10. Friendsville
  11. Friendswood

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