lifesome

English

Etymology

From life +‎ -some.

Adjective

lifesome (comparative more lifesome, superlative most lifesome)

1. (poetic, obsolete) lively; eventful
   • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves:

     My sister may not visit us,
     My mother says her nay:
     O Edward! you are all to me,
     I wish for your sake I could be
     More lifesome and more gay.

Derived terms

• lifesomeness
• lifesomely

References

• “lifesome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• liefsome