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stablesome

stablesome adjective: characteristic of a stable (horsebarn).

Adjective

stablesome (comparative more stablesome, superlative most stablesome)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of a stable (horsebarn).
    • Very pleasant is the sensation of being ushered into a pestiferously stablesome drawing-room.1899, Rudyard Kipling, The City of Dreadful Night, page 20
    • It was a very sumptuous house, with spacious rooms and all the luxuries a big city can furnish, such a contrast to the bare, stablesome apartments, decorated with a wall-paper of flies, lizards, and ants, to which we had grown accustomed.1906, G. A. Mathews, Diary of an Indian Tour, page 142
    Synonyms:
    stablelike

Synonyms of stablesome

Forms of stablesome

comparativemore stablesome
superlativemost stablesome

Origin of stablesome

From stable + -some.

Questions about stablesome

What does stablesome mean?
Stablesome means characteristic of a stable (horsebarn).
What part of speech is stablesome?
Stablesome is an adjective.

Words near stablesome in the dictionary

  1. stableness
  2. stabler
  3. stablers
  4. stables
  5. stablesful
  6. stablesome
  7. stablest
  8. stableward
  9. stablewards
  10. stablewoman
  11. stablewomen

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