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slowsome

slowsome adjective: typified by slowness; characteristically slow.

Adjective

slowsome (comparative more slowsome, superlative most slowsome)

  1. Typified by slowness; characteristically slow
    • As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale.1948, David Marcus, Poetry Ireland - Issues 1-19
    • Sounds like a quick death you may think, but I done it sev'ral times an' s'prisin' slowsome it is, b'lief me.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

Adverb

slowsome (comparative more slowsome, superlative most slowsome)

  1. (nonstandard) In a characteristically slow or slowsome manner; slowly
    • Moose smiled, slowsome.1992, Stephen Dueweke, Playing Soldiers in the Dark
    • Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome.2013, Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy

Forms of slowsome

Adjective
comparativemore slowsome
superlativemost slowsome
Adverb
comparativemore slowsome
superlativemost slowsome

Origin of slowsome

From slow + -some.

Questions about slowsome

What does slowsome mean?
Slowsome means typified by slowness; characteristically slow.
What part of speech is slowsome?
Slowsome can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near slowsome in the dictionary

  1. slows down
  2. slows in
  3. slows off
  4. slows out
  5. slows up
  6. slowsome
  7. slowtard
  8. slowtards
  9. slowth
  10. slowwitted
  11. slowworm

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