stillsome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From still +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

stillsome (comparative more stillsome, superlative most stillsome)

  1. (archaic or poetic) Marked by stillness; quietsome
    • 1846, Edward Mordaunt Spencer, The Heir of Abbotsville:
      Where many a flow'r deck'd in beauty rare, / Imparted fragrance to the stillsome air; [...]
    • 1883, James Middleton Sutherland, Douglas, and other poems:
      Clear streams that thro' so many winding ways / Stray to the mighty ocean, murm'ring flow, / And make sweet music in the stillsome air.
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