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pushful

Syllables: push·ful/ˈpʊʃfʊl/

pushful adjective: energetic; pushy.

Adjective

pushful (comparative more pushful, superlative most pushful)

  1. Energetic; pushy.
    • All grades pass before you, from the pushful American commercial man interested in a patent medicine, to the proud Indian Rajah with his turbaned suite; from the variety actress to the daughter of a peer, or the wife of a millionaire pork-butcher doing Europe.1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy
    • He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time.1908, John F. Runciman, Haydn

pushful meaning in Kannada

pushful in Kannada

ಸಾಹಸಶೀಲ, ದೃಢಮನಸ್ಸಿನ, ದಾಷ್ಟೀಕದ

Examples of pushful in a sentence

  • 'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword.1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917:
  • Buzzaway was one of the privileged (or pushful) people who were sometimes to be seen riding along a road beside the huntsman […]1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 189:

Forms of pushful

comparativemore pushful
superlativemost pushful

Origin of pushful

From push + -ful.

Words formed from pushful

Questions about pushful

What does pushful mean?
Pushful means energetic; pushy.
What is pushful in Kannada?
Pushful in Kannada is ಸಾಹಸಶೀಲ, ದೃಢಮನಸ್ಸಿನ, ದಾಷ್ಟೀಕದ. See Pushful meaning in Kannada.
How do you use pushful in a sentence?
'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword.
What part of speech is pushful?
Pushful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pushful?
Pushful is pronounced /ˈpʊʃfʊl/.

Words near pushful in the dictionary

  1. pushes wood
  2. pushest
  3. pusheth
  4. pushforward
  5. pushforwards
  6. pushful
  7. pushfully
  8. pushfulness
  9. pushie
  10. pushier
  11. pushies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushful (page history and authors); pushful (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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