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tradeful

tradeful adjective: full of trade; busy with commerce or involved in a large amount of business.

Adjective

tradeful (comparative more tradeful, superlative most tradeful)

  1. (archaic) Full of trade; busy with commerce or involved in a large amount of business.
    • Ye tradefull Merchants that with vveary toyle, / Do ſeeke moſt pretious things to make your gain: […]1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XV”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, recto

Forms of tradeful

comparativemore tradeful
superlativemost tradeful

Origin of tradeful

From trade + -ful.

Questions about tradeful

What does tradeful mean?
Tradeful means full of trade; busy with commerce or involved in a large amount of business.
What part of speech is tradeful?
Tradeful is an adjective.

Words near tradeful in the dictionary

  1. traded off
  2. traded paint
  3. traded places
  4. traded up
  5. tradefallen
  6. tradeful
  7. tradeless
  8. tradeline
  9. tradelines
  10. trademark
  11. trademark dilution

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