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lucksome

lucksome adjective: marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky.

Adjective

lucksome (comparative more lucksome, superlative most lucksome)

  1. Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky
    • "You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low."2010, Loren D. Estleman, Billy Gashade
    • “Prophet of ill, never yet to me spakest thou thing lucksome”—this was the sentiment of that river when disappointed of Alice.2016, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Alice Lorraine
  2. Blessed.
    • His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […]1836, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of William Penn, page 50

Forms of lucksome

comparativemore lucksome
superlativemost lucksome
alternative formluxom

Origin of lucksome

From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck + -some.

Questions about lucksome

What does lucksome mean?
Lucksome means marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky.
What part of speech is lucksome?
Lucksome is an adjective.

Words near lucksome in the dictionary

  1. lucks into
  2. lucks out
  3. lucks through
  4. luckshit
  5. Lucksinger
  6. lucksome
  7. lucky
  8. lucky at cards, unlucky in love
  9. lucky bag
  10. lucky bags
  11. lucky bamboo

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