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sitsome

sitsome adjective: tending to, apt to, prone to, or desirous to be seated or sitting; sedentary; stationary.

Adjective

sitsome (comparative more sitsome, superlative most sitsome)

  1. Tending to, apt to, prone to, or desirous to be seated or sitting; sedentary; stationary.
    • "You'll kindly excuse me if I don't raise, honourable and reverend sir; after dinner, and being stout, a body feels sitsome, you know," said the lady, putting out a fat and jewel-laden hand to her visitor.1872, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, The Stilwinches of Combe Mavis

Forms of sitsome

comparativemore sitsome
superlativemost sitsome

Origin of sitsome

From sit + -some. Compare German sittsam (“decent, demure, prudish”), Swedish sedesam (“decent, modest, prim”). Compare setsome.

Questions about sitsome

What does sitsome mean?
Sitsome means tending to, apt to, prone to, or desirous to be seated or sitting; sedentary; stationary.
What part of speech is sitsome?
Sitsome is an adjective.

Words near sitsome in the dictionary

  1. sits with
  2. sitski
  3. sitskied
  4. sitskiing
  5. sitskis
  6. sitsome
  7. sitspot
  8. sitspots
  9. sittable
  10. Sittaceni
  11. Sittang

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