mattersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important
Example Sentences
- "Which is (as “Izzy” pointed out a while back at some length indeed) to “craft” the thing, as they say nowadays: to put it through its dramaturgical paces, goose it along through serial/incremental complications to its climax and denouement, possibly enlightening but at least enter- taining you: “holding [your] attention,” says the dictionary, between your presumably more mattersome affairs."
- "As a not okay continually affects the person in a mattersome way, some level of botheration continues—as in the case of an unresolved issue."
- "All lives be mattersome to him. Not a one oughtn't to be mattersome to us, same way."
Etymology
From matter + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more mattersome (comparative)
most mattersome (superlative)