Word.ws English Dictionary

wartsome

wartsome adjective: characterised or marked by warts; warted.

Adjective

wartsome (comparative more wartsome, superlative most wartsome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by warts; warted.
    • […] and "Waiting for Carl," take place in New York City, portrayed as grungy, dreary, and wartsome.1975, LJ, Library Journal - Volume 100, Issues 9-14, page 1240
    • Bed with a wartsome toad? Ravish'd by a frog? Avaunt amphibian!1988, Textures - Issues 5-7, page 57
    Synonyms:
    warty

Synonyms of wartsome

Forms of wartsome

comparativemore wartsome
superlativemost wartsome

Origin of wartsome

From wart + -some.

Questions about wartsome

What does wartsome mean?
Wartsome means characterised or marked by warts; warted.
What part of speech is wartsome?
Wartsome is an adjective.

Words near wartsome in the dictionary

  1. wartorn
  2. wartpox
  3. warts
  4. warts and all
  5. warts-and-all
  6. wartsome
  7. wartweed
  8. wartweeds
  9. wartwort
  10. wartworts
  11. warty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wartsome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wartsome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wartsome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.