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gripeful

gripeful adjective: disposed to gripe; gripey.

Adjective

gripeful (comparative more gripeful, superlative most gripeful)

  1. Disposed to gripe; gripey.
    • Our imp, with gripeful longing, sought The nearest beer-saloon, A dozen brimming schooners bought And stowed in his "galleon;"1885, Scott R. Sherwood, The Lays of a Bohemian: Being Some of the Metrical Conceits, page 151
    • It has been my good or my bad fortune, take it as you will, to watch the fabrication of "fiz," in certain parts of the Palatinate, and I have been specially privileged to see the most gripeful of all gripy wines that I have ever attempted to drink, the famous Silesian Grüneberger, turned...1895, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian, page 118

Forms of gripeful

comparativemore gripeful
superlativemost gripeful

Origin of gripeful

From gripe + -ful.

Questions about gripeful

What does gripeful mean?
Gripeful means disposed to gripe; gripey.
What part of speech is gripeful?
Gripeful is an adjective.

Words near gripeful in the dictionary

  1. grip-lit
  2. gripe
  3. gripe water
  4. gripe waters
  5. griped
  6. gripeful
  7. griper
  8. gripers
  9. gripes
  10. gripesite
  11. gripesites

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