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jarsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From jar + -some.

Meanings

  1. Characterised or marked by jarring.
    • These principles require companies to generally use the active voice, short sentences, and everyday words, and avoid jarsome commentators […] 1999, Harold S. Bloomenthal, Securities Law Handbook, page 228:
    • It might amuse you, and then you would stamp, and that jars me, gentlemen. Oh, it is awfully jarsome! 1899, The Harvard Lampoon, page 12:

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most jarsome Degree=Sup lexicographic
more jarsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic