Prisonous
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling or characteristic of a prison. obsolete
"Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner."
Example
More examples"Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner."
Etymology
From prison + -ous.
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