prisonous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From prison +‎ -ous.

Adjective[edit]

prisonous (comparative more prisonous, superlative most prisonous)

  1. (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
    • 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
      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.
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