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leef

leef is the obsolete form of lief.

Meaning of lief

Adjective

lief (comparative liefer or liever, superlative liefest or lievest)

  1. (archaic) Beloved, dear, agreeable.
    Synonyms:
    beloved
  2. (archaic) Ready, willing.

See all 3 meanings of lief

Questions about leef

What is leef the obsolete form of?
Leef is the obsolete form of lief.

Words near leef in the dictionary

  1. Leedoms
  2. leeds
  3. Leeds and the Thousand Islands
  4. Leedy
  5. Leedys
  6. leef
  7. leefang
  8. leefangs
  9. Leeford
  10. leeftail
  11. Leegomery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leef (page history and authors); lief (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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