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prisonous

prisonous adjective: resembling or characteristic of a prison.

Adjective

prisonous (comparative more prisonous, superlative most prisonous)

  1. (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
    • Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner.1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC

Forms of prisonous

comparativemore prisonous
superlativemost prisonous

Origin of prisonous

From prison + -ous.

Questions about prisonous

What does prisonous mean?
Prisonous means resembling or characteristic of a prison.
What part of speech is prisonous?
Prisonous is an adjective.

Words near prisonous in the dictionary

  1. prisonizing
  2. prisonless
  3. prisonlike
  4. prisonment
  5. prisonments
  6. prisonous
  7. prisons
  8. prisonsful
  9. prisonwear
  10. prison–industrial complex
  11. prison–industrial complexes

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