Dictionary

lifesome en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈlaɪfsəm/
• līf'səm

Etymology

From life + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised by liveliness; animated; eventful.
   • My sister may not visit us, My mother says her nay: O Edward! you are all to me, I wish for your sake I could be More lifesome and more gay. 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves:
   • "[…] but I won't tell you a lie if I can help it; and for all I haven't it chapter and verse, it's wonderful lifesome, too ." 1887, Littell's Living Age, volume 172, page 138:
   • Katie is not suggesting that everyone quit driving cold turkey, just that it is quite possible to make the segue from cars to more lifesome alternatives. 2002, Stephanie Mills, Epicurean Simplicity, page 101:

Forms

Deriveds

lifesomeness · lifesomely