What does playsome mean?
Playsome means (dated, chiefly literary) Playful; frolicsome..
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/ˈpleɪsəm/ · adjective
(dated, chiefly literary) Playful; frolicsome..
I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse.
Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale; Where all the flowers are fair, and frail (Like her fair self,) a slender fairy, And like a zephyr, playsome, airy, But lovelier far, than buxom Mary.
An' down below's the cloty brook Where I did vish with line an' hook, An' beat, in playsome dips and zwims, The foamy stream, wi' white-skinned lim's.
Use playsome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Playsome means (dated, chiefly literary) Playful; frolicsome..
Common synonyms include carefree, merry, sportive, wanton.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse.
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