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mattersome

mattersome adjective: characterised or marked by mattering; material; important.

Adjective

mattersome (comparative more mattersome, superlative most mattersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important
    • Which is (as “Izzy” pointed out a while back at some length indeed) to “craft” the thing, as they say nowadays: to put it through its dramaturgical paces, goose it along through serial/incremental complications to its climax and denouement, possibly enlightening but at least enter- taining you...2006, John Barth, Where Three Roads Meet
    • As a not okay continually affects the person in a mattersome way, some level of botheration continues—as in the case of an unresolved issue.2012, Russ Hoover, Demand Healing

Forms of mattersome

comparativemore mattersome
superlativemost mattersome

Origin of mattersome

From matter + -some.

Questions about mattersome

What does mattersome mean?
Mattersome means characterised or marked by mattering; material; important.
What part of speech is mattersome?
Mattersome is an adjective.

Words near mattersome in the dictionary

  1. matters of fact
  2. matters of law
  3. matters of life and death
  4. matters of life or death
  5. matters of record
  6. mattersome
  7. Matterson
  8. matterwave
  9. matterwaves
  10. mattery
  11. mattes

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