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rustful

rustful adjective: rusty.

Adjective

rustful (comparative more rustful, superlative most rustful)

  1. (archaic) rusty.
  2. (archaic, figuratively) rusty (impaired by inactivity)

Forms of rustful

comparativemore rustful
superlativemost rustful

Origin of rustful

From rust + -ful.

Words formed from rustful

Questions about rustful

What does rustful mean?
Rustful means rusty.
What part of speech is rustful?
Rustful is an adjective.

Words near rustful in the dictionary

  1. rusted off
  2. rusted out
  3. rusted through
  4. rusted-out
  5. rustenburgite
  6. rustful
  7. rustfully
  8. rustgill
  9. rustgills
  10. Rusthall
  11. rustic

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