queersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by queerness; peculiar; odd
Example Sentences
- "“A queersome breed of spiritualist, to my way of thinking, young man. One who summons communication from the dead, who make knocking sounds from the world beyond.”"
- "“Oh, one more thing, sir, I found this queersome. She said Lieutenant Mull sent her? I don't understand it though. He's not due from Virginia for another fortnight.”"
- "Then we would rise to see his eyes crooked with a queersome madness and his fingers still aflitter."
- "A great victory is made and, with it, a devastating loss. We, Stonewall's Brigade, must now follow another. Our commander, queersome yet brilliant, has died, shot by his own men as he audaciously sought to continue battle under a full moon."
Etymology
From queer + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more queersome (comparative)
most queersome (superlative)