heartsome
Americanadjective
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giving cheer, spirit, or courage.
a heartsome wine.
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cheerful; spirited.
heartsome lads and lasses.
adjective
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cheering or encouraging
heartsome news
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gay; cheerful
Other Word Forms
- heartsomely adverb
- heartsomeness noun
Etymology
Origin of heartsome
Example Sentences
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"Ways me, but thoos not the same heartsome lass," he said, and went on piling the fagots around the shaft.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
I know no evenings so tender as those that gather about the Island: at once heartsome and subdued.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
It is, indeed, a rare and heartsome place to bide in on a summer's day.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It was blithe and heartsome to go birling to Skeighan in the train; it was grand to jouk round Barbie on the nichts at e'en!
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
"You have a heartsome voice," said the singing master, coming closer to Sally, and speaking in his own rich bass.
From Maid Sally by Cheever, Harriet A.
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