Meanings
comparative more weaponous · superlative most weaponous
- nonstandardrareLike a weapon.
He would normally have ignored the screwdriver, but the way she clutched it made it suddenly look weaponous and deadly.
1923, Valentine Durrant, Saul Weir1 more example
A little further on that, at the time this happened someone at my needlework Guild was ditching some bras so she ripped one open to find the wire and see what it was actually like. She is large breasted and indeed the wire was quite weaponous, though the ends had been rounded and smoothed off.
2005, lucretia borgia, “Small scissors to be allowed on airplanes”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet)
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weaponous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weaponous
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