Humorsome

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

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

  • humorsome — hu·mor·some …   English syllables

  • humorsome — mə(r)səm adjective : full of humors : whimsical …   Useful english dictionary

  • moody — 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,… …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • Humorsomeness — Hu mor*some*ness, n. Quality of being humorsome. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Vaporish — 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • restive — 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 …   Law dictionary

  • volatile — 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… …   Law dictionary

  • Attic — Synonyms and related words: Ciceronian, aesthetic, artistic, biting, brilliant, chaste, choice, classic, classical, clear, clever, common, commonplace, direct, droll, easy, elegant, everyday, excellent, facetious, finished, funny, garden, garden… …   Moby Thesaurus

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