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teenful

teenful adjective: full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious.

Adjective

teenful (comparative more teenful, superlative most teenful)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, obsolete, poetic) Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious
    • O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension?1612, William Shakespeare, A Funeral Elegy
    • Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.1922, Reynold A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose - Page 91

Forms of teenful

comparativemore teenful
superlativemost teenful
alternative formteenfull

Origin of teenful

From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen + -ful.

Questions about teenful

What does teenful mean?
Teenful means full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious.
What part of speech is teenful?
Teenful is an adjective.

Words near teenful in the dictionary

  1. teendom
  2. teends
  3. teened
  4. teener
  5. teeners
  6. teenful
  7. teenhood
  8. teenhoods
  9. teenie
  10. teenie bopper
  11. teenie boppers

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