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(dialectal) Characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing.
Our pig is such a growsome little thing; it will eat anything
Since growsome grave of force must have / Sir Ingram Clifford, knight; [...]
They climb the dyke the growsome gets, / In spite o' a' I say; [...]
Use growsome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Growsome means (dialectal) Characterised or marked by growth; apt to grow; conducive to growing.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Our pig is such a growsome little thing; it will eat anything
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