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noteful

noteful adjective: useful; serviceable.

Adjective

noteful (comparative more noteful, superlative most noteful)

  1. Useful; serviceable.
    • [...] an introduction, 'after the statutes of our doctors,' to the theory of astrology, with tables of equations of houses, after the latitude of Oxford, and tables of dignities of planets, and other noteful things.1867, Henry Morley, English writers
    • The immediate irony, of course, is that Pandarus is associating his own misguided advice with harmonious music though Troilus, like the prisoner, is more in need of "noteful sciences" [...]1984, Mark J. Gleason, The influence of Trevet on Boethian language and thought in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Antonyms of noteful

Forms of noteful

comparativemore noteful
superlativemost noteful

Origin of noteful

From Middle English noteful, notful (“useful”), from note (“use, need”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō, *nutjō, *nutą (“use, enjoyment”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”) + -ful. Equivalent to note + -ful. Related to Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old English nyttian (“to make use of, utilize”), Old English nytlīċ (“useful, profitable, beneficial”).

Questions about noteful

What does noteful mean?
Noteful means useful; serviceable.
What part of speech is noteful?
Noteful is an adjective.

Words near noteful in the dictionary

  1. noted down
  2. notedly
  3. notedness
  4. notefile
  5. notefiles
  6. noteful
  7. notehead
  8. noteheads
  9. noteholder
  10. noteholders
  11. noteholding

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