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endful

endful adjective: full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.

Adjective

endful (comparative more endful, superlative most endful)

  1. Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
    • An overgrown fence row or an old thicket became a study of deepest interest by reason of these endful provisions which became as "the rocks for the coveys," a refuge in danger.1902, Iowa State Horticultural Society, Transactions - Volume 36 - Page 159
    • The Changeling is the play that I find most concretely voices this defiance, even as it refutes in absolute terms earlier efforts to make something endful out of the theater's empty show.2011, Persecution, Plague, and Fire

Antonyms of endful

Forms of endful

comparativemore endful
superlativemost endful
alternative formendfull

Origin of endful

From Middle English *endful (suggested by the Middle English adverb endfully), equivalent to end + -ful.

Words formed from endful

Questions about endful

What does endful mean?
Endful means full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
What part of speech is endful?
Endful is an adjective.

Words near endful in the dictionary

  1. endexines
  2. endfeel
  3. endfeels
  4. endfeet
  5. endfoot
  6. endful
  7. endfulness
  8. endgame
  9. endgames
  10. endgate
  11. endgates

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