prisonous
English
Etymology
prison + -ous
Adjective
prisonous (comparative more prisonous, superlative most prisonous)
- (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
- 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner.
- 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood