Meanings
comparative more numbersome · superlative most numbersome
- Characterized by (great) number; numerous.
In the Forum and along the Corso, the crowd congregated most : so numbersome and thickly wedged, it was with difficulty any made way.
1854, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn; or, The suppression of the religious houses, page 291 more example
WEAVER STEPHEN soon enlightened me as to Mr. Knockey's meaning. "Things are getting very numbersome now, sir, — oncommon I call it."
1886, Joseph Parker, Weaver Stephen, page 195
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numbersome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numbersome
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