A word to rhyme with generous.

Trying out linking.Don't suppose I've done it right.

That's a burdensome challenge!

#2 not laborious. ( no, I hadn't done it correctly but you found me - good hunting!) Thanks Rodney.

Not laborious,

Gloomindale sends regards! Please send more shadow, my mind isn't sombre enough.

Laborious is quite appropriate, but not my guess.

Why say "__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __", when you can
Say "poisonous"? Itʻs not shorter than
"Poisonous"; it may be more Latinate
(and Iʻm a classicist!) but wait
And see if itʻs the Crambo! word.
If not, then something has occurred
That is promoting words of even less
Rhyming quality with "generous"; my guess
Is that "__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __" may do
The trick; I think so; how about you?

Not onerous, venomous or arduous. I don't think I have found the last clue, but you are right not to look for' ious' words.

As a sparrow, as Chaucer (and Shakeshaft) would have it.

Not onerous,arduous,venomous or lecherous, but aren't we getting some great words!

To or for, by, with, or from everybody: The big six-wheeler, scarlet painted, London transport, diesel engine, ninety-seven horsepower _________ .

(You don't have #5 yet.)

Might it be __ __ __ __ __ __ __, as in the very forgettable musical comedy lines of "Brush up your Shakespeare"?
/
". . .If she thinks that your conduct is __ __ __ __ __ __ __,
Kick her right in the Coriolanus!"
(along with everything else thatʻs wrong with it, Iʻm not sure the rhyme in that is right either; I was taught that the first syllable of __ __ __ __ __ __ __ rhymes with
"then" , not with "pain".)

Not venomous,onorous,arduous,lecherous. omnibus, sombrous, tenebrous,or heinous. (The computer didn't like some of those more obscure words!)
Clue ; there are more than seven letters.

The long winter is causing me to feel excessively mournful

#15 I don't suppose you mean 'tortuous' but I can't think of another word at present.

No - from Latin 'to mourn'

Not lugubrious, venomous,onorous,lecherous.omnibus,tenebrous, heinous or any word with ious.

The comic-stripʻs Prince _ _ _
Was __ __ __ iant, moreso than Hal,
Son of usurper Henry IV
So, if so inclined, one borroweth
__ __ __ iantʻs first syllable, and pro-
duces __ __ __ __ __ ous,
--no low
Pun, but a legitimate var-
iant of __ __ __ iant, fair
Enough, eh wot? So. an
"-o u s"
And not the rejected -Ious (18)
is the guess.

Oh, Roland - all I could think of to start with was 'deviant' and then I drew a blank. I need time to digest your clue. No, I think I'm there! Not valorous.
More help - nine letters.

19 > 20
"valorous", as the Guess, is right.

I've been staying away, having hosted the prior round, but I decided this one has gone on long enough to allow me an entry: does Crambo's word mean bitter or acrimonious, typically used of speech?

It's funny how some threads go on so long. Not enough people playing. The idea is wrong, Jim, but I haven't sussed out your word yet. I thought of a much better word - cantankerous - but that's too long.

Julie, you don't need to be so uncontrolled, refractory, difficult, and unruly.

I thought of cantankerous, especially because I've been feeling that way at work lately. My guess in #22 rhymes with it quite closely.

New guess: chatty? (I'm assuming we're just matching the ous and not the r)

Right - Not venomous, onorous, lecherous,omnibus, sombrous, heinous, torturous, lugubrious, valorous, cantankerous, boisterous, riotous, impetuous and with nine letters and DOES include the 'r.' ( which cancels out the most obvious word which has ten letters and starts with 'r.) That should finish the game.

re: #24, 26: My word did not appear in your list, but since it has more than nine letters I presume "obstreperous" is not Crambo's word. BTW, my favorite epithet is "obstreperous old fart."

#26 My online wordlist has over 100 words ending in 'rous' including, and unlikely to be correct given previous hints, a word from my school chemistry days meaning without water.

Funny that!

We say "__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __" when we really mean
"Dollar*__ __ __ __" I havenʻt seen
This almost archaic near- synonym for
"Very poor" in years --er-- I mean dec-
ades. If not the Crambo! word, what the heck!
I just thought the suffix might NOT be "-ous"
but something, you can see without fuss,
That means "without" - - (almost the opp-
-osite of "-ous"ʻs original meaning!)
From this, are you the Guess gleaning?

*or: Pound-", Franc-, Yen- etc.

This is ridiculous.

Where have you all gone? Please come back and play.

Not gone, just guess-less.*

*And I might as well admit that "-less" is the suffix referred to in the doggerel of 30.

Final clue - you'll have a job finding a synonym, as I've used it!

Nobody want a go? (Written to bump this up)

I'm guessing that the synonym that you used was "ridiculous," and that Crambo's word is derived from the Latin word for "play" rather than for "laugh."

". . .derived from the Latin word for "play" . . . (36)

Quite possible, but I think that "__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __", an adjective derived from the Latin word for "full" is even better; it has a first
syllable rhyming with "gen-"

Jim is right. I can't believe how long it took for someone to guess. maybe only three of us are playing! The word was ludicrous.

Let this be a lesson for all: Dependance on Latin derivatives makes for a long tedious game.

Loudicrous.

Congratulations, Jim53

(30, b t w, was "penniless",
and 37 was "plenteous", which I still think is, in its 1st syllable, a better rhyme with "generous".)

On 39:
I would say, (the guessers) "being forced into", rather than "dependance on"
Latin derivatives

>39 louminus: Lou, fro some reason I thought of you when I made that guess ;-)

I don't know that we were forced to rely on Latin derivations; given that I couldn't just guess "ridiculous," it seemed the cleanest way to say how my word differed.

Anyway, the new game is over here. It will be shorter.