bloodsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The sight of the rope against the whitewashed wall and the thought of the bloodsome uproar which was about to smash the peace of the night into hash served to deepen that rummy feeling to which I have alluded."
- "If not for all that beyond the Forest, the Waters, I would not this Anxiousness have, but indeed with the sign of that Carnage, bloodsome, not only to me but to everyone 'tis Burdensome, bothersome, and every—[...]"
- "The only tolerable thing about Cannes is the hotel garden, which contains ornamental water with ducks, water-rats etc, and forms an oasis in this bloodsome desert."
- "'[...] It makes things rather bloodsome.'"
- "“It's not just the bloodsome noise; but, also, you're out of time.”"
- "Ta relieve my own strain of mind, and as I was curious too about the character of a man who could tell stories in such conditions, I ran round the traverse and visited him. He greeted me with: 'Hello, Old Thing. How is the bloodsome war in your part of the world?'"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.? Proto-Germanic *blōþą Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English bloodsome From blood + -some.
Inflected Forms
more bloodsome (comparative)
most bloodsome (superlative)