Adjective: hellsome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hellsome |
| Superlative | most hellsome |
Sample Sentences
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At last he said, " As I'm the darned idiot that's going to sottle on these two hellsome ranches to please you, and as you're the gaudy spark wot's clarin' west to hide your sorrer in the busy hants of men, I guess the actual cause of your pal's death ain't no funeral o' mine. [1903, William Reginald Hodder, The Doubling of Joseph Brereton:]
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Ab'nisha, the leader of the hellsome pack, knew this bindi. [2014, Armani Mondragón, Evolving:]
Adjectives inflected like hellsome
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 hell + -some.