lucksome

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adjective

Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky

OriginMiddle English luxom →
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Meanings

adjectivelucksome (comparative more lucksome, superlative most lucksome)

comparative more lucksome · superlative most lucksome · alternative luxom

  1. Marked by luck; fortunate; characterised as lucky

    “Prophet of ill, never yet to me spakest thou thing lucksome”—this was the sentiment of that river when disappointed of Alice.

    2016, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Alice Lorraine
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    "You are a bucketful of green," observed Frank when I flopped over onto my back and looked up at him standing tall and dripping against the Texas sky. "You're mighty lucksome the river's so low."

    2010, Loren D. Estleman, Billy Gashade
  2. Blessed.

    His conscience was clear; his heart was cheered; so, deep inhaling the luxom air, and breathing his pious ejaculations to heaven, he sprung forward to his journey, […]

    1836, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of William Penn, page 50

Origin

  1. Middle Englishluxom
  2. Englishlucksome

From Middle English luxom, *luksom, equivalent to luck + -some.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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