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retreatful

retreatful adjective: furnishing or serving as a retreat.

Adjective

retreatful (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Furnishing or serving as a retreat.
    • Enabling vs to leape ashore for food, / And hide vs strait in our retreatfull floodc. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624, page 4
    • If ever there were a time when farmers were called from the slumbers of their fire sides, and from the honourable and retreatful occupations in the field, to the discussion of their grievances, it is now!1832 May 1, Joseph Livesey, “Agriculture”, in The Moral Reformer, volume 2, number 5, page 153

Origin of retreatful

From retreat + -ful.

Questions about retreatful

What does retreatful mean?
Retreatful means furnishing or serving as a retreat.
What part of speech is retreatful?
Retreatful is an adjective.

Words near retreatful in the dictionary

  1. retreated
  2. retreater
  3. retreaters
  4. retreatest
  5. retreateth
  6. retreatful
  7. retreating
  8. retreatingness
  9. retreatings
  10. retreatism
  11. retreatist

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