lifesome

From life +‎ -some.

• enPR: līf'səm, IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪfsəm/
• Rhymes: -aɪfsəm
• Hyphenation: life‧some

lifesome (comparative more lifesome, superlative most lifesome)

1. Characterised by liveliness; animated; 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.

   • 1887, Littell's Living Age, volume 172, page 138:

     " […] but I won't tell you a lie if I can help it; and for all I haven't it chapter and verse, it's wonderful lifesome, too ."

   • 2002, Stephanie Mills, Epicurean Simplicity, page 101:

     Katie is not suggesting that everyone quit driving cold turkey, just that it is quite possible to make the segue from cars to more lifesome alternatives.

• lifesomeness
• lifesomely

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

• liefsome