Adjective: harboursome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more harboursome |
| Superlative | most harboursome |
Sample Sentences
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That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers. [1882, Walter Baxendale, The preacher's commentary on the book of Ruth:]
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Minorities — as a rule — are distrustful, wounded, and harborsome of uncertainty about their tomorrows. [2001, Polska Akademia Nauk, International Society for Universalism, Dialogue and universalism:]
Adjectives inflected like harboursome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From harbour + -some.