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shadeful

shadeful adjective: full of shade; shady; shaded.

Adjective

shadeful (comparative more shadeful, superlative most shadeful)

  1. Full of shade; shady; shaded.
    • The Eastern Avon vaunts, and doth upon her take
      To be the only child of shadeful Savernake [Forest],1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, The Third Song, page 61
    • Let yourself feel; and shadeful trees,
      Ripe corn, and apples red,
      Read as things barren and distasteful
      While we are separated!1917, Thomas Hardy, “Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie)”, in Moments of Vision

Forms of shadeful

comparativemore shadeful
superlativemost shadeful

Origin of shadeful

From shade + -ful.

Questions about shadeful

What does shadeful mean?
Shadeful means full of shade; shady; shaded.
What part of speech is shadeful?
Shadeful is an adjective.

Words near shadeful in the dictionary

  1. shaded-pole motors
  2. shadee
  3. shadefest
  4. shadeflies
  5. shadefly
  6. shadeful
  7. shadehouse
  8. shadehouses
  9. shadeism
  10. shadeless
  11. shadelessly

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