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numberful

numberful adjective: many in number; numerous.

Adjective

numberful (comparative more numberful, superlative most numberful)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Many in number; numerous.
    • He continued in this tone, noting that lands well ungifted in toneart—we know that altho the Jews are the most numberful of all the mindtilthed ((educated)) races in Europe (races lacking in mindtilth may birth lovelier toneart than mindtilled [...]2006, David Pear, Facing Percy Grainger
    • Birdless, faunaless moons were inhabited, and these bottomful, endful, numberful, and limitful moons were artificially frozen, only, in the 6000's. Moonless, sunless, starless, cometless, and blackholeless galaxies were mostly the fact, after the [...]2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood - Page 89
  2. (nonstandard, rare) Full of numbers.
    • [...] would recite the grave, tribulationary instructions on just how every numberful sheet was to be folded untilitwas a contrivementjust shyof becoming aweakbodied box, and then eachwas tobe walked singlefile up tothe deskso that the teacher [...]2013, Gary Lutz, “The Least Sneaky of Things”, in Peter Conners, editor, PP/FF: An Anthology

Forms of numberful

comparativemore numberful
superlativemost numberful

Origin of numberful

From number + -ful.

Questions about numberful

What does numberful mean?
Numberful means many in number; numerous.
What part of speech is numberful?
Numberful is an adjective.

Words near numberful in the dictionary

  1. numberedness
  2. numberer
  3. numberers
  4. numberest
  5. numbereth
  6. numberful
  7. numberhood
  8. numbering
  9. numberings
  10. numberish
  11. numberless

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