sadsomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

sadsome (comparative more sadsome, superlative most sadsome)

1. Characterised or marked by sadness.
   • 1915, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, volume 43, page 48:

     Our little heroes gazed with pain and sadsome sorrow, too, upon a sight their merry eyes could scarce believe was true.

   • 1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen:

     Give you a sadsome tune, / Sung inside a tiring wing.

   • 1996, Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes, Opening Our Moral Eye:

     O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain.