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thrillsome

thrillsome adjective: characterised or marked by thrill(s).

Adjective

thrillsome (comparative more thrillsome, superlative most thrillsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by thrill(s)
    • That night when the stars had beckoned him to read their myriad secrets and were without moon, the hunger in the pouch of his boybelly was slight, sated so were blood and being by the thrillsome richness of what had taken him, entered him, timeless hours ago.2002, Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante
    • On many levels, and to a heteronormed viewership, Klapisch's film, and Xavier's travel diary, represent heady, heartening and wholly thrillsome escapes from conformity.2011, Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt, Alistair Rolls Alistair Rolls, Hexagonal Variations

Forms of thrillsome

comparativemore thrillsome
superlativemost thrillsome

Origin of thrillsome

From thrill + -some.

Questions about thrillsome

What does thrillsome mean?
Thrillsome means characterised or marked by thrill(s).
What part of speech is thrillsome?
Thrillsome is an adjective.

Words near thrillsome in the dictionary

  1. thrills
  2. thrills and spills
  3. thrillseeker
  4. thrillseekers
  5. thrillseeking
  6. thrillsome
  7. thrillsville
  8. thrilly
  9. Thrimby
  10. thrimsa
  11. thrimsas

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