gingersome
/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)səm/
gingersome adjective: characterised or marked by gingerness; careful; sensitive; delicate.
Adjective
gingersome (comparative more gingersome, superlative most gingersome)
- Characterised or marked by gingerness; careful; sensitive; delicate
- The fifty little brown musicians rendered difficult selections with marvelous accuracy and gingersome dash and artistic enjoyment of the work.1912, Daniel D. Bidwell, As Far as the East is from the West
- All this has changed though, making walking and driving a bit more of a gingersome exercise, though fortunately there were ice-free patches in between.2009, From Scotland to Siberia: Meltdown
Forms of gingersome
| comparative | more gingersome |
|---|---|
| superlative | most gingersome |
Origin of gingersome
From ginger + -some.
Questions about gingersome
- What does gingersome mean?
- Gingersome means characterised or marked by gingerness; careful; sensitive; delicate.
- What part of speech is gingersome?
- Gingersome is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce gingersome?
- Gingersome is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)səm/.
Words near gingersome in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gingersome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gingersome.wav.
Cite this entry: “gingersome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gingersome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.