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friskful

friskful adjective: lively; frolicsome.

Adjective

friskful (comparative more friskful, superlative most friskful)

  1. (rare) Lively; frolicsome.
    • [H]is sportive Lambs, / This way and that convolv'd, in friskful Glee, / Their Frolics play.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

Forms of friskful

comparativemore friskful
superlativemost friskful

Origin of friskful

From frisk + -ful.

Questions about friskful

What does friskful mean?
Friskful means lively; frolicsome.
What part of speech is friskful?
Friskful is an adjective.

Words near friskful in the dictionary

  1. frisker
  2. friskers
  3. Friskes
  4. frisket
  5. friskets
  6. friskful
  7. friskier
  8. friskiest
  9. friskily
  10. friskiness
  11. friskinesses

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