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worksome

worksome adjective: characterised by work; industrious; diligent.

Adjective

worksome (comparative more worksome, superlative most worksome)

  1. (archaic) Characterised by work; industrious; diligent.
    • —and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues!1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VI (Thermidor), page 382
  2. Laborious; work-intensive.
    • At the very beginnings of his governance time began to show how turbulent and worksome it was going to be, […]1968, University of Santo Tomás, Philippiniana sacra: Volume 3

Forms of worksome

comparativemore worksome
superlativemost worksome

Origin of worksome

From work + -some. Cognate with German wirksam (“effective, operative, effectual”), Swedish verksam (“active, operative”), Old English weorcsum (“laborious, painful”).

Words formed from worksome

Questions about worksome

What does worksome mean?
Worksome means characterised by work; industrious; diligent.
What part of speech is worksome?
Worksome is an adjective.

Words near worksome in the dictionary

  1. workshy
  2. workshyness
  3. worksite
  4. worksites
  5. workslop
  6. worksome
  7. worksomeness
  8. worksona
  9. worksonae
  10. worksonas
  11. worksong

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