Prisonous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prisonous is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
Meaning
(obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prisonlike, jailish, prisonerlike, jaillike, gulaglike, parolelike.
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