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craftful

craftful adjective: crafty; full of tricks.

Adjective

craftful (comparative more craftful, superlative most craftful)

  1. Crafty; full of tricks.
  2. Employing crafting techniques.

Noun

craftful (plural craftfuls)

  1. A quantity that a craft (any sense) contains.
    • This was not the time or place either for trade or for paying scot, and who knew what a craftful of strangers wanted?2013, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings
    • If a craftful of human beings could somehow be encoded into tachyonic form and then reconstituted as normal matter somewhere else,its translation from one side of the Universe to the other could take no time at all—even better, since theory predicted that tachyons also travelled backwards in time...2014, John Grant, Strider's Galaxy

Forms of craftful

Adjective
comparativemore craftful
superlativemost craftful
Noun
pluralcraftfuls

Origin of craftful

From craft + -ful.

Words formed from craftful

Questions about craftful

What does craftful mean?
Craftful means crafty; full of tricks.
What part of speech is craftful?
Craftful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near craftful in the dictionary

  1. crafter
  2. crafternoon
  3. crafternoons
  4. crafters
  5. craftes
  6. craftful
  7. craftfully
  8. craftfulness
  9. craftfuls
  10. craftier
  11. craftiest

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