sadsome
English
Etymology
From sad + -some.
Adjective
sadsome (comparative more sadsome, superlative most sadsome)
- Somewhat sad; indicating or marked by sadness
- 1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen:
- Give you a sadsome tune, / Sung inside a tiring wing.
- 1996, Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes, Opening Our Moral Eye:
- O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain.
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