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tendsome

tendsome adjective: characterised by needing much tending, attention, or care.

Adjective

tendsome (comparative more tendsome, superlative most tendsome)

  1. (rare) Characterised by needing much tending, attention, or care.
    • And Ephraim praised the children volubly. "Never woz children thet woz so little tendsome," said he, with pride.1884, Edward Everett Hale, The Fortunes of Rachel, page 195
    • Owing to the fact that Nancy Slocumb had been snubbed when she advised oiling Stepan at three weeks, since he seemed a tendsome child, she had been two years trying to copy the Pinkney plan.1916, Edith Miniter, Our Natupski Neighbors, page 92

Forms of tendsome

comparativemore tendsome
superlativemost tendsome

Origin of tendsome

From tend + -some.

Questions about tendsome

What does tendsome mean?
Tendsome means characterised by needing much tending, attention, or care.
What part of speech is tendsome?
Tendsome is an adjective.

Words near tendsome in the dictionary

  1. Tendruk
  2. tendry
  3. tends
  4. tends bar
  5. tends to one's knitting
  6. tendsome
  7. tendu
  8. tendus
  9. Tenebrae
  10. tenebral
  11. tenebrescence

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