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dearnful

dearnful is the alternative form of dernful.

Meaning of dernful

Adjective

dernful (comparative more dernful, superlative most dernful)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) secret, lonely, sad, or mournful
    • dernful noise1595, Edmund Spenser, The Mourning Muse of Thestylis

Forms of dearnful

comparativemore dearnful
superlativemost dearnful

Questions about dearnful

What is dearnful the alternative form of?
Dearnful is the alternative form of dernful.

Words near dearnful in the dictionary

  1. dearn
  2. Dearne
  3. dearned
  4. dearness
  5. dearnesses
  6. dearnful
  7. dearning
  8. Dearnley
  9. Dearnleys
  10. dearnly
  11. dearns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dearnful (page history and authors); dernful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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