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spiceful

spiceful adjective: full or laden with spice; spicy; aromatic.

Adjective

spiceful (comparative more spiceful, superlative most spiceful)

  1. Full or laden with spice; spicy; aromatic
    • That those proud Airies, bred whereas the scorching skie
      Doth sindge the sandie Wyldes of spicefull Barbarie;1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 5 p. 82

Antonyms of spiceful

Forms of spiceful

comparativemore spiceful
superlativemost spiceful

Origin of spiceful

From spice + -ful. According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Questions about spiceful

What does spiceful mean?
Spiceful means full or laden with spice; spicy; aromatic.
What part of speech is spiceful?
Spiceful is an adjective.

Words near spiceful in the dictionary

  1. spicebush
  2. spicebushes
  3. spiced
  4. spiced up
  5. spiced wine
  6. spiceful
  7. spicehead
  8. spiceheads
  9. spicehouse
  10. spicehouses
  11. spiceland

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