Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to further or promote; helpful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
Etymologies
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further + -some
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Examples
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At all events, to gather a little strength there would be very furthersome both for self and Partner.
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For the rest, as in enterprises of pith, a touch of stratagem often proves furthersome, his Majesty announces a Royal Hunt, for the
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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To the Reality of the Mountain are not all furthersome things possible?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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She also has a deranged stalker and is being used by a white supremacy group to furthersome members’bizarre conspiracy theories.
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