humorsome

  • 1Humorsome — Hu mor*some, a. 1. Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2humorsome — index restive, volatile Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3humorsome — a. 1. Petulant, peevish, snappish, waspish, crusty, captious, perverse, wayward, cross grained. 2. Capricious, whimsical, fanciful, fitful, fantastic, odd …

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  • 4humorsome — hu·mor·some …

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  • 5humorsome — mə(r)səm adjective : full of humors : whimsical …

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  • 6moody — a. 1. Humorsome, capricious, variable. 2. Angry, petulant, irritable, irascible, passionate, snappish, pettish, sour, crusty, crabbed, waspish, captious, snarling, peevish, testy, fretful, ill tempered, out of humor, out of temper. 3. Sullen,… …

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  • 7Humorsomeness — Hu mor*some*ness, n. Quality of being humorsome. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 8Vaporish — Va por*ish, a. 1. Full of vapors; vaporous. [1913 Webster] 2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. [1913 Webster] Pallas grew vap rish once and odd. Pope. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 9restive — I adjective averse, balking, balky, cantankerous, contumacious, crossgrained, crotchety, deaf to reason, demurring, difficult, discontented, disinclined, disobedient, exceptious, excitable, excited, fidgety, fractious, fretful, grumpy, headstrong …

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  • 10volatile — I adjective active, animated, brief, brisk, buoyant, capricious, changeable, cometary, deciduous, desultory, effervescent, elastic, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, evanescent, evaporable, excitable, explosive, fickle, fleeting, flighty, full of… …

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