lifesome
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lifesome (comparative more lifesome, superlative most lifesome)
- (poetic, obsolete) lively; eventful
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves:
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “lifesome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.