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weepful

weepful adjective: full of weeping or lamentation.

Adjective

weepful (comparative more weepful, superlative most weepful)

  1. (obsolete) Full of weeping or lamentation.
    • "Really, Hubert, you have grown most terribly weepful lately. You are getting quite old enough to control yourself[…]"1878, E. A. W, Hubert's Two Anchors

Forms of weepful

comparativemore weepful
superlativemost weepful

Origin of weepful

From weep + -ful.

Questions about weepful

What does weepful mean?
Weepful means full of weeping or lamentation.
What part of speech is weepful?
Weepful is an adjective.

Words near weepful in the dictionary

  1. weepes
  2. weepest
  3. weepeth
  4. weepfest
  5. weepfests
  6. weepful
  7. weephole
  8. weepholes
  9. weepie
  10. weepier
  11. weepies

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