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furthersome

furthersome adjective: tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.

Adjective

furthersome (comparative more furthersome, superlative most furthersome)

  1. (archaic) Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
    • you will find it a most handy and every way furthersome , blessed and felicitous world1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Antonyms of furthersome

Forms of furthersome

comparativemore furthersome
superlativemost furthersome

Origin of furthersome

From further + -some.

Words formed from furthersome

Questions about furthersome

What does furthersome mean?
Furthersome means tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
What part of speech is furthersome?
Furthersome is an adjective.

Words near furthersome in the dictionary

  1. furthermoreover
  2. furthermost
  3. furtherness
  4. furtherover
  5. furthers
  6. furthersome
  7. furtherward
  8. furthest
  9. furthest flung
  10. Furthest Mosque
  11. furthest-flung

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