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woundsome

woundsome adjective: causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.

Adjective

woundsome (comparative more woundsome, superlative most woundsome)

  1. Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.
    • And now grim and woundsome grew the battle, for the Demons mightily withstood the onset of the Witches, […]1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 72, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC
    • You still have your doubts don't you? She sighed. What proof can I give you that Im telling the truth? What can I say that will convince you? And then her eyes lit up. I know, she said. When you were very little, you sustained a woundsome sort of hunting accident.2000, Michael Jan Friedman, A Call to Darkness
    Synonyms:
    scatheful, scathely

Synonyms of woundsome

Forms of woundsome

comparativemore woundsome
superlativemost woundsome

Origin of woundsome

From wound + -some.

Questions about woundsome

What does woundsome mean?
Woundsome means causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.
What part of speech is woundsome?
Woundsome is an adjective.

Words near woundsome in the dictionary

  1. woundings
  2. woundless
  3. woundlessness
  4. woundlike
  5. wounds
  6. woundsome
  7. woundussy
  8. woundwood
  9. woundwort
  10. woundworts
  11. woundy

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