longsome
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of longsome
before 900; Middle English, Old English longsum, langsum. See long 1, -some 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
This long and somewhat longsome history is by another pen, which is distinguished from the ordinary text by constant attempts at fine writing, patches of Saj'a or prose-rhyme and profuse poetry, mostly doggerel.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
By Allah, O my brother, affliction is longsome upon us!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
His gaiety and his gravity offuscate one another; and the readers of his longsome fiction, or his dark parallel, were puzzled, even among his contemporaries, to know in what sense to receive them.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
At last, when care waxed on him and calamity grew longsome, he fell sick of a sore sickness.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Where woonce along the sky o' blue The zun went roun' his longsome bow, An' brighten'd, to my soul, the view About our little farm below.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
