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strifeful

strifeful adjective: full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.

Adjective

strifeful (comparative more strifeful, superlative most strifeful)

  1. Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
    • But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Antonyms:
    strifeless

Antonyms of strifeful

Forms of strifeful

comparativemore strifeful
superlativemost strifeful
alternative formstrifull

Origin of strifeful

From strife + -ful.

Questions about strifeful

What does strifeful mean?
Strifeful means full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
What part of speech is strifeful?
Strifeful is an adjective.

Words near strifeful in the dictionary

  1. stridulousness
  2. Striegel
  3. Striegels
  4. strife
  5. strife-ridden
  6. strifeful
  7. strifeless
  8. strifelessness
  9. strifemaker
  10. strifemakers
  11. strifemaking

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