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growsome

growsome adjective: characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing. Also the alternative form of gruesome.

Adjective

growsome (comparative more growsome, superlative most growsome)

  1. (dialectal) Characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing
    • Since growsome grave of force must have / Sir Ingram Clifford, knight; [...]1828, Nathan Drake, Mornings in Spring
    • They climb the dyke the growsome gets, / In spite o' a' I say; [...]1828, William M'Dowall, Poems, chiefly in the Galloway dialect

Also used as

growsome is also the alternative form of gruesome.

Forms of growsome

comparativemore growsome
superlativemost growsome

Origin of growsome

From grow + -some.

Questions about growsome

What does growsome mean?
Growsome means characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing.
What part of speech is growsome?
Growsome is an adjective.

Words near growsome in the dictionary

  1. grows on
  2. grows out
  3. grows out of
  4. grows some balls
  5. grows up
  6. growsome
  7. growstones
  8. growth
  9. growth arrest line
  10. growth arrest lines
  11. growth cone

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