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behooveful

behooveful adjective: needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous.

Adjective

behooveful (comparative more behooveful, superlative most behooveful)

  1. (archaic) Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous.
    Synonyms:
    noteful

Synonyms of behooveful

Forms of behooveful

comparativemore behooveful
superlativemost behooveful
alternative formbehoofful
alternative formbehoveful

Origin of behooveful

From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoove + -ful.

Words formed from behooveful

  • behoovefully
  • behoovefulness

Questions about behooveful

What does behooveful mean?
Behooveful means needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous.
What part of speech is behooveful?
Behooveful is an adjective.

Words near behooveful in the dictionary

  1. behoofs
  2. behooped
  3. behoovable
  4. behoove
  5. behooved
  6. behooveful
  7. behooven
  8. behooves
  9. behoovest
  10. behooveth
  11. behooving

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