tendsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised by needing much tending, attention, or care.
Example Sentences
- "And Ephraim praised the children volubly. "Never woz children thet woz so little tendsome," said he, with pride."
- "Owing to the fact that Nancy Slocumb had been snubbed when she advised oiling Stepan at three weeks, since he seemed a tendsome child, she had been two years trying to copy the Pinkney plan."
Etymology
From tend + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more tendsome (comparative)
most tendsome (superlative)