Meanings
comparative more doublesome · superlative most doublesome
- Characterised or marked by being double; dual
He's always in trouble, This doublesome bubble, For eating his pie with a spoon.
1969, Gifford W. Wingate, Lion Who Wouldn't2 more examples
To cranking the engine, as though it had wrought / This doublesome, / Troublesome, / Automobubblesome [...]
1913, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly - Volume 58Difference and ambiguity permeate the film and the motif of the ‘doublesome’ pods is replicated on a number of levels : production, consumption, generic structures and screenplay.
2006, Stephen Butler, A million little differences
Origin
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doublesome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doublesome
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