Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rilesome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rile-some
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Easily aggravated; tending to get riled up.

adj

Tending to stir or move from a state of order; roilsome.

Example Sentences

"Away from the immediate heat of our relationship—like when she's at school—I think to myself that I might even enjoy the wild energy her rilesome nature brings to my life if it weren't so evident that so much of the time the pain she causes me is anything but inadvertent."
"Wide-grained and with hard knots of stubbornness, rilesome and quick to judge and long to hold a grudge. And in the turbulent time to come, I learned to love her for even the magnificence of her shortcomings."
"I can run that remark of Alec's through my ears a dozen times now and find no particular reason for it to be rilesome."
"Les bonnes temps, Andy. Laissez les bonnes temps rouler encore. And I sure as shit wouldn't do anything rilesome about Senator Boone and his indiscreet love life."

Etymology

From rile + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: rile

Inflected Forms

more rilesome (comparative) most rilesome (superlative)

Questions

What does rilesome mean?: Easily aggravated; tending to get riled up.
Where does rilesome come from?: From rile + -some.

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