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sadsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From sad + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by sadness.
   • Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:
   • Our little heroes gazed with pain and sadsome sorrow, too, upon a sight their merry eyes could scarce believe was true. 1915, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, volume 43, page 48:
   • O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming. 1996, Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes, Opening Our Moral Eye:
   • Give you a sadsome tune, / Sung inside a tiring wing. 1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen:

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