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taleful

taleful adjective: abounding with stories.

Adjective

taleful (comparative more taleful, superlative most taleful)

  1. Abounding with stories.
    • The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic.1798, James Thomson, Winter
    • To see the houshold flock around the fire, The children listening to the taleful Sire, To hear the song— harmless sports to join, Live o'er past days, and call these blessings mine!1807, Select Collection of Poems

Examples of taleful in a sentence

  • The history of democracy is fairly long and quite taleful too.1960, Calcutta Review:
  • Would her taleful past that delimited her present project into her taleful future - or taleless!2004, Bode Osanyin, Seraro and Joy, page 225:

Forms of taleful

comparativemore taleful
superlativemost taleful

Origin of taleful

From tale + -ful.

Questions about taleful

What does taleful mean?
Taleful means abounding with stories.
How do you use taleful in a sentence?
The history of democracy is fairly long and quite taleful too.
What part of speech is taleful?
Taleful is an adjective.

Words near taleful in the dictionary

  1. talectomy
  2. taled
  3. taleds
  4. talee
  5. talees
  6. taleful
  7. talegalla
  8. talegallas
  9. taleggio
  10. taleggios
  11. Taleh

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