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tideful

tideful adjective: flooded with the waters of a tide.

Adjective

tideful (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) Flooded with the waters of a tide.

Noun

tideful (plural tidefuls)

  1. (rare) An amount carried by the tide.
    • […] tidefuls of seaweed […]1938, Glasgow (Scotland). Empire Exhibition, 1938. Highlands Committee, The Highlands and the Highlanders (page 110)
    • […] a tideful of summer-fish coming up Moy to Ballina.1952, Eric Taverner, The Making of a Trout Stream, page 35

Forms of tideful

pluraltidefuls

Origin of tideful

From tide + -ful.

Questions about tideful

What does tideful mean?
Tideful means flooded with the waters of a tide.
What part of speech is tideful?
Tideful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near tideful in the dictionary

  1. tidefall
  2. tidefalls
  3. tideflat
  4. tideflats
  5. Tideford
  6. tideful
  7. tidefuls
  8. tideglusib
  9. tideland
  10. tidelands
  11. tideless

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