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beadful

beadful adjective: prayerful.

Adjective

beadful (comparative more beadful, superlative most beadful)

  1. (obsolete) Prayerful.
  2. Full of or having beads; beaded
    • Choice lay between the red and green pillow with the beadwork dog, and the thinner patchwork one with written names scrawling over it; and the beadful dog won out.1918, International Railway Journal, volume 26

Noun

beadful (plural beadfuls)

  1. The amount contained in a bead
    • This "beadful" of fluid caused eventual peeling of the paint.1958, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 116

Forms of beadful

Adjective
comparativemore beadful
superlativemost beadful
Noun
pluralbeadfuls

Origin of beadful

From Middle English bedeful, equivalent to bead (“prayer", later also "bead”) + -ful.

From bead + -ful.

Questions about beadful

What does beadful mean?
Beadful means prayerful.
What part of speech is beadful?
Beadful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near beadful in the dictionary

  1. beadel
  2. beadels
  3. beader
  4. beaders
  5. beadery
  6. beadful
  7. beadfuls
  8. beadhook
  9. beadhooks
  10. beadhouse
  11. beadhouses

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