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groanful

groanful adjective: agonizing; painful.

Adjective

groanful (comparative more groanful, superlative most groanful)

  1. (obsolete) agonizing; painful
    • Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42

Forms of groanful

comparativemore groanful
superlativemost groanful

Origin of groanful

From groan + -ful.

Questions about groanful

What does groanful mean?
Groanful means agonizing; painful.
What part of speech is groanful?
Groanful is an adjective.

Words near groanful in the dictionary

  1. groaner
  2. groaners
  3. groanes
  4. groanest
  5. groaneth
  6. groanful
  7. groanin'
  8. groaning
  9. groaning board
  10. groaning boards
  11. groaning cheese

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