desertful

/ˈdɛz.əɹt.fʊl/

desertful adjective: deserving; meritorious.

Adjective

desertful (comparative more desertful, superlative most desertful)

desertful (plural desertfuls or desertsful)

Enough to fill a desert.
- I ought to have been a naturalised burgher of a year's standing; but Ohio's my State, and I wouldn't have gone back on her for a desertful of Dutchmen.1904, Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries
- Nothing but sand. Desertsful of the stuff.1972 April 7, Trevor Lautens, “Leisure’s Book Reviews”, in The Sun, volume LXXXVI, number 157, Vancouver, B.C., page 34ᴬ

I find the show amazingly entertaining, though much of what is discussed has to be taken with a desertful of salt.1998, Art Bell, The Art of Talk, page 158:
But like just about everybody else in their cozy little suburb, with the big Victorian houses that guzzled desertfuls of heating oil each winter, they were house poor, oil poor, tax poor.2008, Debra Galant, Fear and Yoga in New Jersey, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 98:

From desert + -ful.

What does desertful mean?: Desertful means deserving; meritorious.
How do you use desertful in a sentence?: I find the show amazingly entertaining, though much of what is discussed has to be taken with a desertful of salt.
What part of speech is desertful?: Desertful can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce desertful?: Desertful is pronounced /ˈdɛz.əɹt.fʊl/.

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