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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable.
[…] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."
There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.
'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.
Use shortsome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shortsome means (UK dialectal, Scotland) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."
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