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mightsome

mightsome verb: to be powerful.

Verb

mightsome (third-person singular simple present mightsomes, present participle mightsoming, simple past and past participle mightsomed)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To be powerful.

Noun

mightsome (uncountable)

  1. (informal, nonstandard, regional) A (little) bit; somewhat; a tad.
    • The ranch, it can get a mightsome lonely.1993, Lee Scofield, Sweet Amity's Fire

Forms of mightsome

third-person singular presentmightsomes
present participlemightsoming
past participlemightsomed
pastmightsomed

Origin of mightsome

From Middle English mightsomen, mihtsomen, apparently an alteration of Middle English nühtsomen, from Old English ġenyhtsumian (“to abound, have abundance, suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *ganuhtsumōną (“to suffice”), from *nuhtiz (“sufficiency, enoughness”), from Proto-Indo-European *eneḱ-, *neḱ- (“to reach, attain”). Cognate with Old High German ginuhtsamōn (“to be sufficient”).

From might + -some, perhaps for mite + -some.

Words formed from mightsome

  • mightsomand
  • mightsomeness

Questions about mightsome

What does mightsome mean?
Mightsome means to be powerful.
What part of speech is mightsome?
Mightsome can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mightsome?
The past tense of mightsome is mightsomed.

Words near mightsome in the dictionary

  1. mightn't
  2. mightn't've
  3. mightna
  4. mightnae
  5. mights
  6. mightsome
  7. mightst
  8. mighty
  9. mighty dollar
  10. Mighty Mississippi
  11. Mighty Mouse

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