Word.ws English Dictionary

jarsome

jarsome adjective: characterised or marked by jarring.

Adjective

jarsome (comparative more jarsome, superlative most jarsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by jarring.
    • It might amuse you, and then you would stamp, and that jars me, gentlemen. Oh, it is awfully jarsome!1899, The Harvard Lampoon, page 12
    • These principles require companies to generally use the active voice, short sentences, and everyday words, and avoid jarsome commentators […]1999, Harold S. Bloomenthal, Securities Law Handbook, page 228

Forms of jarsome

comparativemore jarsome
superlativemost jarsome

Origin of jarsome

From jar + -some.

Questions about jarsome

What does jarsome mean?
Jarsome means characterised or marked by jarring.
What part of speech is jarsome?
Jarsome is an adjective.

Words near jarsome in the dictionary

  1. jarry
  2. Jarryd
  3. jars
  4. Jarsdel
  5. jarsful
  6. jarsome
  7. jart
  8. Jartai
  9. jarts
  10. jartycuck
  11. jartycucks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jarsome (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:

Cite this entry: “jarsome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jarsome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.