whimsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by whim; whimsical
Example Sentences
- "Indeed, while I worked away at various duties concerning my rank and station, the country folk conspired against me, muttering suspiciously behind closed doors like a band of cowardly rodents, and so chanced one another into some dreadfully whimsome labels and a fairly hasty, hand-tailored casus belli – all seditious themes which turned distrust to anger and anger to transgression, whence a single handful of...agitators somehow convinced their would-be peers that my assets and, more importantly, my right, had somehow worsened their condition."
- "John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful."
- "A condescending tone is evident in a Photoplay article titled “Little Miss Practicality” in which the author characterizes her as a “Winsome, whimsome little lady” and “just a charming, fascinatingly pretty girl, whose charm is such a strange, wayward, elusively and delightfully feminine thing”."
Etymology
From whim + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more whimsome (comparative)
most whimsome (superlative)