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huddlesome

huddlesome adjective: characteristic of a huddle or huddling.

Adjective

huddlesome (comparative more huddlesome, superlative most huddlesome)

  1. Characteristic of a huddle or huddling
    • [...] and not so much as an escape either, but rather as an acceptance of their shorn lot and curse, and as a movement towards a tribunal, where no trees or other life existed and where they would be forced to contemplate the stark searing stare and voice of Almighty God all day and all night...2001, Leon Forrest, The Bloodworth Orphans

Forms of huddlesome

comparativemore huddlesome
superlativemost huddlesome

Origin of huddlesome

From huddle + -some.

Questions about huddlesome

What does huddlesome mean?
Huddlesome means characteristic of a huddle or huddling.
What part of speech is huddlesome?
Huddlesome is an adjective.

Words near huddlesome in the dictionary

  1. huddlements
  2. huddler
  3. huddlers
  4. huddles
  5. Huddlesford
  6. huddlesome
  7. Huddleson
  8. Huddlesons
  9. Huddleston
  10. Huddleston with Newthorpe
  11. Huddlestons

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