hampersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by hampering; hindersome.
Example Sentences
- "The trail from Siboney to San Juan was littered with canned rations, blouses and outfits too hampersome and heavy to carry."
- "Nowadays, the best we provide against the attack of Whitehead torpedoes is to "Down with your fights," these just being flounces or crinolines of wire rope very ingeniously made but hampersome."
- "Wonderful as is this fabricated revue, there may come a time when the unalterableness of the pattern, now so convenient, may prove hampersome."
- "An experienced bank architectural would not overload you with an expensive and hampersome system, for the experience gained by serving many banks would allow them not only to properly plan and arrange your bank but to equip it for your present requirements […]"
- "In the first place, the provisions on portfolio turnover in the Treasury regulations today are not hampersome to the industry in any way at all."
Etymology
Etymology tree English hamper 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 hampersome From hamper (verb) + -some.
Inflected Forms
more hampersome (comparative)
most hampersome (superlative)