founderous
English
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editfounderous (comparative more founderous, superlative most founderous)
- (archaic) Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up.
- 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
- I have travelled through the negotiation, — and a sad, founderous road it is.
References
edit- “founderous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.