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Weightsome vs Eightsome - What's the difference?

weightsome | eightsome |

As an adjective weightsome

is of, pertaining to, possessing, or characterised by weight; weighty; weightful; heavy; grave; grievous.

As a noun eightsome is

a group of eight persons or things, one more than a sevensome and one less than a ninesome.

weightsome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, possessing, or characterised by weight; weighty; weightful; heavy; grave; grievous.
  • *1887 , The American Magazine - Volume 6 - Page 406:
    • On next meeting Mrs. Ottarson, she permitted no semblance of complaint or of adverse criticism to evidence the weightsome discouragement that oppressed her.
  • *1912 , Arthur Wellington Brayley, ?Arthur Wilson Tarbell, ?Joe Mitchell Chapple, National magazine - Volume 35 - Page 297 :
    • "Fate-dispenser," Medford Browne was wont to ask her on occasion, "how canst thou be so blithe when so weightsome is thy day's allotment of labor?"

    eightsome

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of eight persons or things, one more than a sevensome and one less than a ninesome