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verveful

verveful adjective: full of verve.

Adjective

verveful (comparative more verveful, superlative most verveful)

  1. Full of verve.
    • Yet, if wit was the stuff of Fuller’s intellectual outfit, and he was quaint and humorous, even grotesque, in his writings, full of quips, quirks, puns, conceits, alliterations, antitheses and anecdote, there was every antecedent probability that what he was at the desk he would be in the pulpit...1886, Morris Fuller, “A Biographical Essay on Fuller as a Preacher”, in Pulpit Sparks. Being XIX. Sermons of That Godly and Popular Divine Thomas Fuller, D. D. (The Celebrated Church Historian...
    • The man in quest of health does not get braced up and invigorated, and often returns home after his fortnight’s excursion desiderating that verveful brightness, that elasticity of step, and that flow of spirits he went in search of.1886 August, “Hunstanton”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation., volume L, number CCXCVI, London, page 126

Forms of verveful

comparativemore verveful
superlativemost verveful

Origin of verveful

From verve + -ful.

Questions about verveful

What does verveful mean?
Verveful means full of verve.
What part of speech is verveful?
Verveful is an adjective.

Words near verveful in the dictionary

  1. vervain mallows
  2. vervaine
  3. vervains
  4. Vervale
  5. verve
  6. verveful
  7. vervein
  8. verveine
  9. vervel
  10. verveled
  11. verveless

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