togetherish

English

Etymology

From together + -ish.

Adjective

togetherish (comparative more togetherish, superlative most togetherish)

  1. Indicative or characteristic of togetherness or being together; togetherly.
    • 1992, Richard Kenneth Barksdale, Praisesong of Survival:
      We are also asking for a new humanism that will revive a healthy individualism in what has become a crowded, urbanized, "togetherish" society.
    • 2002, Stephen Sandy, Surface Impressions:
      Salads are chatty, sociable, so togetherish at a lamplit table, everyone (or two) taking helpings.
    • 2004, Merle Thornton, After Moonlight:
      If things pan out, if it is on the right footing, maybe I could even think about more of him than that, something more togetherish.
    • 2013, Janet Taylor Lisle, Looking for Juliette:
      The Lambert clan was togetherish, as Georgina frequently complained. “You should tell your family that you are a person witha life of your own!” she advised Poco.
  2. Somewhat together.
    • 1942, William Davidson, Brother Goose:
      They still look awful togetherish.

Adverb

togetherish (comparative more togetherish, superlative most togetherish)

  1. In a togetherish or somewhat together manner.
    • 1982, Ezra Pound, Brita Lindberg-Seyersted, Pound/Ford, the Story of a Literary Friendship:
      I have hopes then that we might go there together - or at any rate togetherish as to boats - in September.
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