strainsome

strainsome

English

Etymology

From strain +‎ -some.

Adjective

strainsome (comparative more strainsome, superlative most strainsome)

1. Characterised or marked by straining
   • 1973, Ēnugula Vīrāsvāmayya, Kasiyatra Charitra:

     There are 300 steps to the mountain and it is strainsome to ascend the stairs.

   • 2011, Prashant Saxena, The Departed One:

     [...] when you looked me with those teary eyes / and heart pounding with strainsome cries [...]

Anagrams

• Sarmientos, matronises, rossmanite, steam irons, stramonies