Adjective: unworksome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more unworksome |
| Superlative | most unworksome |
Sample Sentences
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[…] but then, again, the accumulation of much capital with fathers will tend to kill a lively piety of thankfulness in their children, and sometimes make them unworksome and vicious spendthrifts. [1859, William Barnes, Views of labour and gold - Page 8:]
Adjectives inflected like unworksome
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 un- + worksome. Compare German unwirksam (“ineffective, useless”), Swedish overksam (“inactive, passive, ineffective”). See: German Adjectives '
unwirksam', Swedish Adjectives '
overksam'.
Verbs referencing "unworksome"
German Adjectives
unwirksam, Swedish Adjectives
overksam.