Adjective: sitsome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sitsome |
| Superlative | most sitsome |
Sample Sentences
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"You'll kindly excuse me if I don't raise, honourable and reverend sir; after dinner, and being stout, a body feels sitsome, you know," said the lady, putting out a fat and jewel-laden hand to her visitor. [1872, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, The Stilwinches of Combe Mavis:]
Adjectives inflected like sitsome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From sit + -some. Compare German sittsam (“decent, demure, prudish”), Swedish sedesam (“decent, modest, prim”). Compare setsome. See: German Adjectives '
sittsam', Swedish Adjectives '
sedesam'.