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gamblesome

gamblesome adjective: characterised or marked by gambling.

Adjective

gamblesome (comparative more gamblesome, superlative most gamblesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by gambling
    • "That's very gamblesome." / (!) / I'm speechless. (But, fortunately, not wordless.) / If you're not nonplused by "gamblesome," or at least vastly taken aback, there's probably no hope for the language.2004, Lori Clinch, Are We There Yet?
    • In an article in English on “The Adventurers” in the play, we learn that “nearly every character turns out to be an adventurer, with a particular gamblesome [sic] tendency of his own” (30).2013, John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon, The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays

Forms of gamblesome

comparativemore gamblesome
superlativemost gamblesome

Origin of gamblesome

From gamble + -some.

Questions about gamblesome

What does gamblesome mean?
Gamblesome means characterised or marked by gambling.
What part of speech is gamblesome?
Gamblesome is an adjective.

Words near gamblesome in the dictionary

  1. gambler's rot
  2. gambler's ruin
  3. gamblerlike
  4. gamblers
  5. gambles
  6. gamblesome
  7. gamblest
  8. gambleth
  9. gamblification
  10. Gamblin
  11. gamblin'

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