prisonous

English

Etymology

From prison +‎ -ous.

Adjective

prisonous (comparative more prisonous, superlative most prisonous)

1. (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
   • 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

     Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner.