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molestful

molestful adjective: troublesome; vexatious.

Adjective

molestful (comparative more molestful, superlative most molestful)

  1. (archaic) Troublesome; vexatious.
    • "[…]Thy mode of speaking makes thee manifest
      ⁠A native of that noble fatherland,
      ⁠To which perhaps I too molestful was."1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC
    • To her nothing already then and thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferent mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of molestful

comparativemore molestful
superlativemost molestful

Origin of molestful

From molest + -ful.

Questions about molestful

What does molestful mean?
Molestful means troublesome; vexatious.
What part of speech is molestful?
Molestful is an adjective.

Words near molestful in the dictionary

  1. molestered
  2. molestering
  3. molesters
  4. molestest
  5. molesteth
  6. molestful
  7. molesting
  8. molests
  9. Molesworth
  10. Molesworthian
  11. moletrap

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