Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glorisome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glo-ri-some
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterised or marked by glory; glorious

Example Sentences

"While at Cambridge I'd been invited to a glorysome College Feast, for which I'd had to hire a dinner jacket (or tuxedo), the only time my socialist soul has been encased in such a garment."
"You just finish up your egg and have another little nap and then tonight we'll all be sitting around the camp-fire and YOU maybe will be telling us all about your journey and why you folk do be coming over the mountains in the stilly night and the glorisome day, bearing troubles in your hearts and nothing in your hands."

Etymology

From glory + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: glory

Inflected Forms

more glorisome (comparative) most glorisome (superlative) glorysome (alternative)

Questions

What does glorisome mean?: Characterised or marked by glory; glorious
Where does glorisome come from?: From glory + -some.

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