What does mattersome mean?
Mattersome means Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important.
Which is (as “Izzy” pointed out a while back at some length indeed) to “craft” the thing, as they say nowadays: to put it through its dramaturgical paces, goose it along through serial/incremental complications to its climax and denouement, possibly enlightening but at least enter- taining you: “holding [your] attention,” says the dictionary, between your presumably more mattersome affairs.
As a not okay continually affects the person in a mattersome way, some level of botheration continues—as in the case of an unresolved issue.
All lives be mattersome to him. Not a one oughtn't to be mattersome to us, same way.
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Mattersome means Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important.
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Which is (as “Izzy” pointed out a while back at some length indeed) to “craft” the thing, as they say nowadays: to put it through its dramaturgical paces, goose it along through serial/incremental complications to its climax and denouement, possibly enlightening but at least enter- taining you: “holding [your] attention,” says the dictionary, between your presumably more mattersome affairs.
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