Rilesome
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Easily aggravated; tending to get riled up.
"Away from the immediate heat of our relationship—like when she's at school—I think to myself that I might even enjoy the wild energy her rilesome nature brings to my life if it weren't so evident that so much of the time the pain she causes me is anything but inadvertent."
- 2 Tending to stir or move from a state of order; roilsome.
"I can run that remark of Alec's through my ears a dozen times now and find no particular reason for it to be rilesome."
Example
More examples"Away from the immediate heat of our relationship—like when she's at school—I think to myself that I might even enjoy the wild energy her rilesome nature brings to my life if it weren't so evident that so much of the time the pain she causes me is anything but inadvertent."
Etymology
From rile + -some.
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