Adjective: fatesome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fatesome |
| Superlative | most fatesome |
Sample Sentences
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One fatesome day while waiting for my landscaping friend to pop by, I was taking an afternoon shower sheerly out of boredom when my dog began barking. [2011, Tommy Anthony, The Knowledge of Good and Evil, page 183:]
Adjectives inflected like fatesome
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
1. Etymology tree
2. English fate
3. Proto-Indo-European *sem-
4. Proto-Indo-European *somHós
5. Proto-Germanic *samaz
6. Proto-Germanic *-samaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *-sam
8. Old English -sum
9. Middle English -som
10. English -some
11. English fatesome
12. From fate + -some.