numbersome
adjEtymology From number + -some.
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Characterized by (great) number; numerous.
- In the Forum and along the Corso, the crowd congregated most : so numbersome and thickly wedged, it was with difficulty any made way.1854, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn; or, The suppression of the religious houses, page 29:
- WEAVER STEPHEN soon enlightened me as to Mr. Knockey's meaning. "Things are getting very numbersome now, sir, — oncommon I call it."1886, Joseph Parker, Weaver Stephen, page 195: