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sadsome

sadsome adjective: characterised or marked by sadness.

Adjective

sadsome (comparative more sadsome, superlative most sadsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by sadness.
    • Our little heroes gazed with pain and sadsome sorrow, too, upon a sight their merry eyes could scarce believe was true.1915, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, volume 43, page 48
    • Give you a sadsome tune, / Sung inside a tiring wing.1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

Examples of sadsome in a sentence

  • O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming.1996, Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes, Opening Our Moral Eye:
  • Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

Forms of sadsome

comparativemore sadsome
superlativemost sadsome

Origin of sadsome

From sad + -some.

Questions about sadsome

What does sadsome mean?
Sadsome means characterised or marked by sadness.
How do you use sadsome in a sentence?
O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming.
What part of speech is sadsome?
Sadsome is an adjective.

Words near sadsome in the dictionary

  1. sads
  2. sadsack
  3. sadsacks
  4. Sadsadan
  5. Sadsaran
  6. sadsome
  7. sadster
  8. sadsters
  9. SADT
  10. SADTs
  11. Sadu

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