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dureful

dureful adjective: long-lasting; enduring.

Adjective

dureful (comparative more dureful, superlative most dureful)

  1. (obsolete) long-lasting; enduring
    • dureful Brass1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of dureful

comparativemore dureful
superlativemost dureful

Origin of dureful

From dure + -ful.

Questions about dureful

What does dureful mean?
Dureful means long-lasting; enduring.
What part of speech is dureful?
Dureful is an adjective.

Words near dureful in the dictionary

  1. durean
  2. dureans
  3. durectomies
  4. durectomy
  5. dured
  6. dureful
  7. dureing
  8. dureless
  9. Durell
  10. Durells
  11. Duren

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