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illsome

illsome adjective: characterised by ill or illness.

Adjective

illsome (comparative more illsome, superlative most illsome)

  1. Characterised by ill or illness
    • Some illsome swain / Doth plant the prickly thorn amid Love's bloom, / To sorrow turned!1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight - Volume 1
    • "[...] O Doctor Tommins forgive! the cost and the foul disgrace, Of debt, for the illsome guilt, of the most remarkable case, O Doctor Tommins have grace!"1895, William Theodore Parkes, The Spook Ballads

Forms of illsome

comparativemore illsome
superlativemost illsome

Origin of illsome

From ill + -some.

Questions about illsome

What does illsome mean?
Illsome means characterised by ill or illness.
What part of speech is illsome?
Illsome is an adjective.

Words near illsome in the dictionary

  1. Illowa
  2. illoyal
  3. illoyalty
  4. ills
  5. Illsley
  6. illsome
  7. illth
  8. illtreat
  9. illtreated
  10. illtreating
  11. illtreats

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