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dueful

dueful adjective: suitable, appropriate.

Adjective

dueful (comparative more dueful, superlative most dueful)

  1. (archaic) Suitable, appropriate.
    • her lives Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserved, as his duefull meed, / Her love, her service, and her utmost wealth […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of dueful

comparativemore dueful
superlativemost dueful

Origin of dueful

From due + -ful.

Questions about dueful

What does dueful mean?
Dueful means suitable, appropriate.
What part of speech is dueful?
Dueful is an adjective.

Words near dueful in the dictionary

  1. due to
  2. duebill
  3. duebills
  4. Dueck
  5. Duecks
  6. dueful
  7. Dueitt
  8. Dueitts
  9. duel
  10. dueled
  11. dueler

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