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smartful

smartful adjective: painful.

Adjective

smartful (comparative more smartful, superlative most smartful)

  1. (obsolete) painful
    • But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112
    • Even the absence alone of fore-gone joy is troublesome; how much more when they wind downward into smartful extremities?1834, The Literary Cyclopædia, Or Universal Dictionary of Ideas

Synonyms of smartful

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Forms of smartful

comparativemore smartful
superlativemost smartful

Origin of smartful

From smart + -ful.

Questions about smartful

What does smartful mean?
Smartful means painful.
What part of speech is smartful?
Smartful is an adjective.

Words near smartful in the dictionary

  1. smartens
  2. smartens up
  3. smarter
  4. smartest
  5. smarteth
  6. smartful
  7. smartglasses
  8. smartgrid
  9. smartgrids
  10. Smartha
  11. Smarthas

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