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stragglesome

stragglesome adjective: characterised or marked by straggling.

Adjective

stragglesome (comparative more stragglesome, superlative most stragglesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by straggling.
    • But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion.2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines
    • Bombay is too green, too pretty, and too stragglesome; and Madras died ever so long ago.2016, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea

Forms of stragglesome

comparativemore stragglesome
superlativemost stragglesome

Origin of stragglesome

From straggle + -some.

Questions about stragglesome

What does stragglesome mean?
Stragglesome means characterised or marked by straggling.
What part of speech is stragglesome?
Stragglesome is an adjective.

Words near stragglesome in the dictionary

  1. straggled
  2. straggler
  3. straggler daisy
  4. stragglers
  5. straggles
  6. stragglesome
  7. Stragglethorpe
  8. stragglier
  9. straggliest
  10. straggliness
  11. straggling

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