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mattersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From matter + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important
   • Which is (as “Izzy” pointed out a while back at some length indeed) to “craft” the thing, as they say nowadays: to put it through its dramaturgical paces, goose it along through serial/incremental complications to its climax and denouement, possibly enlightening but at least enter- taining you: “holding [your] attention,” says the dictionary, between your presumably more mattersome affairs. 2006, John Barth, Where Three Roads Meet:
   • As a not okay continually affects the person in a mattersome way, some level of botheration continues—as in the case of an unresolved issue. 2012, Russ Hoover, Demand Healing:
   • All lives be mattersome to him. Not a one oughtn't to be mattersome to us, same way. 2014, Lisa Wingate, The Story Keeper:

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