Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

flairsome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: flair-some
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterised or marked by flair.

Example Sentences

"Nay, I niver get ony harm, as I know on, fro' th' little chaps though I do shiver whiles, for their curses is summat flairsome to hearken to."
"[…] blow-ups in some crises, has also kept him from rising to the big, flairsome gesture at other times."
"Flairsome shoe shapes with a flutter of bow or a sliver of T-strap...and the merest butterfly touch on the foot."
"A special issue of the National Business Review had chosen 54 newsmakers of the decade, so the newsletter included Colin James's assessment that I was 'Parliament's most flairsome member, 1980."

Etymology

From flair + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: flair

Inflected Forms

more flairsome (comparative) most flairsome (superlative)

Questions

What does flairsome mean?: Characterised or marked by flair.
Where does flairsome come from?: From flair + -some.

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