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nighsome

nighsome adjective: favourable; gracious.

Adjective

nighsome (comparative more nighsome, superlative most nighsome)

  1. Favourable; gracious.
    • And embittered Winter, fury consumed By thoughts of Spring's nighsome 'proach, can compass.1922, Charles Edwin Hewes, Songs of the Rockies

Forms of nighsome

comparativemore nighsome
superlativemost nighsome

Origin of nighsome

From nigh + -some.

Words formed from nighsome

  • nighsomeness

Questions about nighsome

What does nighsome mean?
Nighsome means favourable; gracious.
What part of speech is nighsome?
Nighsome is an adjective.

Words near nighsome in the dictionary

  1. nigheth
  2. nighing
  3. nighly
  4. nighness
  5. nighs
  6. nighsome
  7. night
  8. night adder
  9. night adders
  10. night after night
  11. night air

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