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powersome

powersome adjective: characterised or marked by power; powerful.

Adjective

powersome (comparative more powersome, superlative most powersome)

  1. (dialectal) Characterised or marked by power; powerful.
    • "Uch ay," said MacErchar, "they be's powersome brutes— powersome brutes, in troth, and plaguy cunning..1886, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, The Wolfe of Badenoch: A Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century
    • So he moseyed over by the tracks to light up and loiter in the darker shadows of the water tower as a million years went by and then at last he spied the headlamp of a powersome Baldwin 4-6-2 puffing, thirsty, up from the southwest.2000, Tabor Evans, Longarm 257: Longarm and the Nevada Bellydancer

Forms of powersome

comparativemore powersome
superlativemost powersome

Origin of powersome

From power + -some.

Questions about powersome

What does powersome mean?
Powersome means characterised or marked by power; powerful.
What part of speech is powersome?
Powersome is an adjective.

Words near powersome in the dictionary

  1. powerslamming
  2. powerslams
  3. powerslash
  4. powerslide
  5. powerslides
  6. powersome
  7. powersport
  8. powersports
  9. Powerstock
  10. powerstrip
  11. powerstrips

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