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perilsome

perilsome adjective: characterised or marked by peril; perilous.

Adjective

perilsome (comparative more perilsome, superlative most perilsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by peril; perilous
    • In which regard it was considered of by the common table of the cupbearers what a perilsome thing it was to let any stranger or out-dweller approach so near the precincts of the prince as the great chamber without examining what he was and giving him his pass.1998, Paul Salzman, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
    • It did not need the Scourers or the Mohocks to make going abroad a perilsome affair.2014, Pat Rogers, Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture

Forms of perilsome

comparativemore perilsome
superlativemost perilsome

Origin of perilsome

From peril + -some.

Questions about perilsome

What does perilsome mean?
Perilsome means characterised or marked by peril; perilous.
What part of speech is perilsome?
Perilsome is an adjective.

Words near perilsome in the dictionary

  1. perilous
  2. Perilous Seat
  3. perilously
  4. perilousness
  5. perils
  6. perilsome
  7. periluminal
  8. periluminally
  9. periluminar
  10. perilunate
  11. perilune

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