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earnful

earnful adjective: full of anxiety or yearning.

Adjective

earnful (comparative more earnful, superlative most earnful)

  1. (obsolete) Full of anxiety or yearning.
    • Hereat the prince of prowess […] did groaning fetch a deep and earnful sigh.1633, Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues
    Synonyms:
    yearnful

Synonyms of earnful

Forms of earnful

comparativemore earnful
superlativemost earnful

Origin of earnful

From earn + -ful, from earn (“to yearn”).

Questions about earnful

What does earnful mean?
Earnful means full of anxiety or yearning.
What part of speech is earnful?
Earnful is an adjective.

Words near earnful in the dictionary

  1. earnests
  2. earnesty
  3. earneth
  4. Earney
  5. Earneys
  6. earnful
  7. Earnhardt
  8. Earnhardts
  9. Earnhart
  10. Earnharts
  11. Earnheart

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