Adjective: restful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more restful |
| Superlative | most restful |
Sample Sentences
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After a hard day, Sue found the beauty of the park especially restful.
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'And are you trembling still, dear?
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Then let me take your hand;
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And I will lead you outward
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To a sweet and restful land. [1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem):]
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A restful night's sleep mended his spirits.
Adjectives inflected like restful
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 Middle English restful, restfulle, equivalent to rest + -ful.