wordful
wordful adjective: full of words; wordy; talkative; verbose.
Adjective
wordful (comparative more wordful, superlative most wordful)
Noun
wordful (plural wordfuls)
- An amount expressed in a word; (figuratively) a lot (of).
- A PUN is a wordful of fun.1895 October 26, Edward Clayton Savage, “Under the Microscope”, in Judge, volume 29, number 732, page 260
- And what a wordful of ignorance is daily talked and printed.1922 January, “The Civil Engineer and Radio”, in The Architect and Engineer, page 106
Examples of wordful in a sentence
- CHAR is the mode for a character; BITS is a wordful of binary digits, BYTES a wordful of characters.1973 September, P. M. Woodward, “A Language Far Enough Ahead for Those Who Are Starting Now”, in High Level Programming Languages-The Way...
- Even without the use of a cache it is possible to fetch one wordful of intermediate instructions, and keep them in a processor register until they have all been executed.1990, Eddy H. Debaere, “Optimizing Interpretive Execution” (chapter 3), in Interpretation and Instruction Path Coprocessing, MIT Press...
- Eamonn had heard Kate’s mother saying she took more time over the loops on her y’s and g’s than she did for a whole wordful of other letters.2000, Elizabeth Lutzeier, Bound for America, Oxford University Press, pages 103-104:
Antonyms of wordful
Forms of wordful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more wordful |
| superlative | most wordful |
| Noun | |
| plural | wordfuls |
Origin of wordful
From Middle English wordefull, from Old English wordfull, equivalent to word + -ful.
From word + -ful.
Questions about wordful
- What does wordful mean?
- Wordful means full of words; wordy; talkative; verbose.
- How do you use wordful in a sentence?
- CHAR is the mode for a character; BITS is a wordful of binary digits, BYTES a wordful of characters.
- What part of speech is wordful?
- Wordful can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near wordful in the dictionary
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