Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

friendsome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: friend-some
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Everyone outside my mother called father Eben. Father looked up and smiled. He and Miss Bet had been terrible friendsome ever since the day when, as a tiddleliwinkie snip o' a child [...]"
"He was long-married hisownself, real friendsome, and his smile wasn't aimed at me, it was to match my own."
"[…] maybe Yanagi b'liefed us an' maybe he din't, but he bartered us fungusdo' for rockfish an' warned us Waimea Town weren't so friendsome as it'd been once, nay, Kona say-soed'n'knucklied ficklewise an' you cudn't guess their b'havin's."

Etymology

From Middle English frendsome, equivalent to friend + -some (adjective). Compare Scots friendsome (“friendly”), Dutch vriendzaam (“friendly”), German freundsam (“friendly”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: frendsome
Suffix: friend

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more friendsome (comparative) most friendsome (superlative)

Derived Forms

friendsomeness

Questions

What does friendsome mean?: Indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
Where does friendsome come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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