illsome

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adjective

Characterised by ill or illness

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Meanings

adjectiveillsome (comparative more illsome, superlative most illsome)

comparative more illsome · superlative most illsome

  1. Characterised by ill or illness

    Some illsome swain / Doth plant the prickly thorn amid Love's bloom, / To sorrow turned!

    1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight - Volume 1
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    "[...] O Doctor Tommins forgive! the cost and the foul disgrace, Of debt, for the illsome guilt, of the most remarkable case, O Doctor Tommins have grace!"

    1895, William Theodore Parkes, The Spook Ballads

Origin

From ill + -some.

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APA

illsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illsome

MLA

“illsome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illsome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “illsome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illsome.

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