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bateful

bateful adjective: causing contention; contentious.

Adjective

bateful (comparative more bateful, superlative most bateful)

  1. (obsolete) Causing contention; contentious.
    • It did bateful question frame.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...

Forms of bateful

comparativemore bateful
superlativemost bateful

Origin of bateful

From bate + -ful.

Questions about bateful

What does bateful mean?
Bateful means causing contention; contentious.
What part of speech is bateful?
Bateful is an adjective.

Words near bateful in the dictionary

  1. Batecala
  2. bated
  3. bateel
  4. bateels
  5. batefenterol
  6. bateful
  7. Batehaven
  8. batei din
  9. batei midrash
  10. bateid
  11. bateids

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