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whimsome

whimsome adjective: characterised or marked by whim; whimsical.

Adjective

whimsome (comparative more whimsome, superlative most whimsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by whim; whimsical
    • Indeed, while I worked away at various duties concerning my rank and station, the country folk conspired against me, muttering suspiciously behind closed doors like a band of cowardly rodents, and so chanced one another into some dreadfully whimsome labels and a fairly hasty, hand-tailored casus...2009, Bruno Massé, The Noxious and the Daemon Flower
    • John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful.2012, Kirsty Stonell Walker, The Kissed Mouth: The Pug of Doom

Forms of whimsome

comparativemore whimsome
superlativemost whimsome

Origin of whimsome

From whim + -some.

Questions about whimsome

What does whimsome mean?
Whimsome means characterised or marked by whim; whimsical.
What part of speech is whimsome?
Whimsome is an adjective.

Words near whimsome in the dictionary

  1. whimsiest
  2. whimsigoth
  3. whimsigothic
  4. whimsily
  5. whimsiness
  6. whimsome
  7. whimstone
  8. whimstones
  9. whimsy
  10. whimsy maxxing
  11. whimsy-maxx

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