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researchful

researchful adjective: making researches; inquisitive.

Adjective

researchful (comparative more researchful, superlative most researchful)

  1. Making researches; inquisitive.
    • Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida

Forms of researchful

comparativemore researchful
superlativemost researchful

Origin of researchful

From research + -ful.

Questions about researchful

What does researchful mean?
Researchful means making researches; inquisitive.
What part of speech is researchful?
Researchful is an adjective.

Words near researchful in the dictionary

  1. researchee
  2. researchees
  3. researcher
  4. researchers
  5. researches
  6. researchful
  7. researching
  8. researchings
  9. researchist
  10. researchists
  11. researchship

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