"mirksome" meaning in English

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        "2": "mirk",
        "3": "some"
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      "expansion": "mirk + -some",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mirk + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more mirksome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most mirksome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "mirksome (comparative more mirksome, superlative most mirksome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28:",
          "text": "Then to her yron wagon she betakes, / And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: / Through mirksome aire her ready way she makes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1600 [1581], Edward, trans. Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, book XIII, verse v, translation of La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso:",
          "text": "And there, in silence deaf and mirksome shade, / His characters and circles vain he made.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dark; gloomy; murky."
      ],
      "id": "en-mirksome-en-adj-CWO3U2qK",
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        [
          "Dark",
          "dark"
        ],
        [
          "gloomy",
          "gloomy"
        ],
        [
          "murky",
          "murky"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Dark; gloomy; murky."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mirksomeness"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cimmerian"
        },
        {
          "word": "dingy"
        },
        {
          "word": "tenebrous"
        },
        {
          "word": "dark"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mirksome"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mirk",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "mirk + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mirk + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more mirksome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most mirksome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "mirksome (comparative more mirksome, superlative most mirksome)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mirksomeness"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28:",
          "text": "Then to her yron wagon she betakes, / And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: / Through mirksome aire her ready way she makes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1600 [1581], Edward, trans. Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, book XIII, verse v, translation of La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso:",
          "text": "And there, in silence deaf and mirksome shade, / His characters and circles vain he made.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dark; gloomy; murky."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dark",
          "dark"
        ],
        [
          "gloomy",
          "gloomy"
        ],
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          "murky",
          "murky"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Dark; gloomy; murky."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cimmerian"
    },
    {
      "word": "dingy"
    },
    {
      "word": "tenebrous"
    },
    {
      "word": "dark"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mirksome"
}