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deedful

deedful adjective: full of good deeds.

Adjective

deedful (comparative more deedful, superlative most deedful)

  1. (archaic) Full of good deeds.
    • But you have made the wiser choice, / A life that moves to gracious ends / Thro' troops of unrecording friends, / A deedful life, a silent voice: […]1842, Alfred Tennyson, “To—, after Reading a Life and Letters”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 300

Forms of deedful

comparativemore deedful
superlativemost deedful

Origin of deedful

From deed + -ful.

Words formed from deedful

Questions about deedful

What does deedful mean?
Deedful means full of good deeds.
What part of speech is deedful?
Deedful is an adjective.

Words near deedful in the dictionary

  1. deede
  2. deeded
  3. deeder
  4. deeders
  5. deedes
  6. deedful
  7. deedfully
  8. deedholder
  9. deedholders
  10. deedholding
  11. deedier

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