What does weaponous mean?
Weaponous means (nonstandard, rare) Like a weapon..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(nonstandard, rare) Like a weapon..
He would normally have ignored the screwdriver, but the way she clutched it made it suddenly look weaponous and deadly.
A little further on that, at the time this happened someone at my needlework Guild was ditching some bras so she ripped one open to find the wire and see what it was actually like. She is large breasted and indeed the wire was quite weaponous, though the ends had been rounded and smoothed off.
Use weaponous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Weaponous means (nonstandard, rare) Like a weapon..
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He would normally have ignored the screwdriver, but the way she clutched it made it suddenly look weaponous and deadly.
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