Adjective: earnful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more earnful |
| Superlative | most earnful |
Sample Sentences
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Hereat the prince of prowess […] did groaning fetch a deep and earnful sigh. [1633, Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues:]
Adjectives inflected like earnful
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From earn + -ful, from earn (“to yearn”).