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gonesome

gonesome adjective: synonym of gone (“weak; faint; feeling goneness”).

Adjective

gonesome (comparative more gonesome, superlative most gonesome)

  1. (US, colloquial, regional) Synonym of gone (“weak; faint; feeling goneness”).
    • As they settled themselves at the table, he observed with gloom, "I hope you've got a gonesome feelin' round yore waistband, 'cause if you ain't, this here fodder won't seem tasty."2011, Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind, page 102
    Synonyms:
    gone

Synonyms of gonesome

Forms of gonesome

comparativemore gonesome
superlativemost gonesome

Origin of gonesome

From gone + -some.

Questions about gonesome

What does gonesome mean?
Gonesome means synonym of gone (“weak; faint; feeling goneness”).
What part of speech is gonesome?
Gonesome is an adjective.

Words near gonesome in the dictionary

  1. goneplacid
  2. goneplacids
  3. goner
  4. goners
  5. goneski
  6. gonesome
  7. gonest
  8. goney
  9. goneys
  10. gonezo
  11. gonfalon

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