sadsome
adjEtymology From sad + -some.
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Characterised or marked by sadness.
- Our little heroes gazed with pain and sadsome sorrow, too, upon a sight their merry eyes could scarce believe was true.1915, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, volume 43, page 48:
- Give you a sadsome tune, / Sung inside a tiring wing.1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen:
2 more examples
- O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming.1996, Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes, Opening Our Moral Eye:
- Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN: