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ageful

Syllables: age·fulUK/ˈeɪd͡ʒfl̩/

ageful adjective: aged, elderly, old.

ageful: aged, elderly, old
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Adjective

ageful (comparative more ageful, superlative most ageful)

  1. Aged, elderly, old.
    • Poor Hans, with watery eye, and ache at heart, / Glanced at the tambour; she is lost to him. / Hirschvogel sat crossed-legged, his glasses up, / And watched for what might hap, with ageful fire.1885, W[illiam] G[orman] Wills, Melchior, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, part XXXV, page 341
    • Of course, it also represents the courtesy of the old men of the country, with their eylids drooping into ageful insipidity and ageful sleep and their bodies leaning over the age-old sticks without which can they hardly stand.1981, Shiv Lal, editor, The Election Archives, New Delhi: Shiv Lal, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 589
  2. (rare) Eternal, everlasting.
    • In the New Testament, the substantive αιων, and αιωνιος the adjective derived from it, occur more than two hundred times. The adjective, which strictly might be rendered “full of ages” or “ageful,” is generally translated "eternal" or "everlasting," and I believe correctly; […]1868, David Pitcairn, “Lecture IV. The Ages Past, and to Come”, in The Ages of the Earth. Biblical Testimonies to the Earth’s Antiquity and Progressive Development, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons...

Noun

ageful (plural agefuls)

  1. (rare) An eternity, a perpetuity.
    • I thank you, Sir; for one minutes commendations from a perſon that has kept a conſtant regiſter of Conſequences is worth an age-ful from any body elſe.1673, J[ohn] E[achard], Some Opinions of Mr Hobbes Considered in a Second Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy, London: Printed by J. Macock, for Walter Kettilby, at the Sign of the Bishops-head in...

Synonyms of ageful

Forms of ageful

Adjective
comparativemore ageful
superlativemost ageful
Noun
pluralagefuls

Origin of ageful

From age + -ful.

Questions about ageful

What does ageful mean?
Ageful means aged, elderly, old.
What part of speech is ageful?
Ageful can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ageful?
Ageful is pronounced /ˈeɪd͡ʒfl̩/ (UK).

Words near ageful in the dictionary

  1. agedre
  2. agee
  3. Agees
  4. ageest
  5. agefright
  6. ageful
  7. agefulness
  8. agefuls
  9. agegraphic
  10. ageinest
  11. ageing

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