longsome

[ lawng-suhm, long- ]

adjective

1. tiresomely long; so protracted as to weary or cause boredom.

Other Words From

• longsome·ly adverb
• longsome·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of longsome¹

before 900; Middle English, Old English longsum, langsum. See long ¹, -some ¹

Example Sentences

The grimaces, the dumb show, the newly-invented passions, and the series of impossible events, which drag through these five longsome acts, seem to show a species of anomaly in the human mind that composed the piece, to which I imagine no parallel can be found on record.

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When he came to the waste, he found there more than two thousand christian men, who by a longsome condemnation were set to the digging of marble, who greatly rejoiced at his coming, with one voice saying, "Behold here is our shepherd, behold here is the comforter of our tribulation and work."

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Longsome would it be to recount the ends of all the impious persecutors, how sternly the Almighty God avenged on them the sufferings of his saints.

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Wasn’t the Bishop too longsome for anything?

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His gaiety and his gravity offuscate one another; and the readers of his longsome fiction, or his dark parallel, were puzzled, even among his contemporaries, to know in what sense to receive them.

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