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ruleful

ruleful adjective: based on rules.

Adjective

ruleful (comparative more ruleful, superlative most ruleful)

  1. Based on rules.
    • Dream psychology badly needs a "scientific" (ruleful, reliable) way of identifying and determining the interrelatedness of those associative and motivational structures […]1978, David Foulkes, A grammar of dreams, page 320

Forms of ruleful

comparativemore ruleful
superlativemost ruleful

Origin of ruleful

From rule + -ful.

Words formed from ruleful

Questions about ruleful

What does ruleful mean?
Ruleful means based on rules.
What part of speech is ruleful?
Ruleful is an adjective.

Words near ruleful in the dictionary

  1. ruled the school
  2. ruled with a rod of iron
  3. ruledom
  4. rulee
  5. rulees
  6. ruleful
  7. ruleless
  8. rulelessly
  9. rulelessness
  10. rulemaker
  11. rulemakers

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