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aimfully

aimfully adverb: in an aimful manner; with fixed purpose.

Adverb

aimfully (comparative more aimfully, superlative most aimfully)

  1. In an aimful manner; with fixed purpose.
    • It occurred to me the other day, as I passed along the street, how rare a thing it has become to see a mother abroad with her own little ones. “She has no time,” may be the reply, “to range about in that aimless way.” But what is she doing with her time? Is it any more aimfully spent if she uses it...1870, anonymous, “Dinner vs. Ruffles and Tucks” in Putnam’s Magazine, New Series, Volume 5, June 1870, p. 710
    • He is drifting away from Zim’s homestead. Wandering aimlessly at first. To be as far away as possible from the jabbering women. Away to the sea. Aimfully. To his haunts with Qukezwa.2000, Zakes Mda, chapter 10, in The Heart of Redness, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2002, page 230

Antonyms of aimfully

Forms of aimfully

comparativemore aimfully
superlativemost aimfully

Origin of aimfully

From aimful + -ly.

Questions about aimfully

What does aimfully mean?
Aimfully means in an aimful manner; with fixed purpose.
What part of speech is aimfully?
Aimfully is an adverb.

Words near aimfully in the dictionary

  1. aimers
  2. Aimes
  3. aimest
  4. aimeth
  5. aimful
  6. aimfully
  7. aimin'
  8. aiming
  9. aiming at
  10. aiming for the sky
  11. aiming for the stars

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