Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bloodful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: blood-ful
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"Oh, cruel, bloodful chum of awful war, / Of soldier ills the most pestiferous, far; / Oh, crawling, creeping, clawing, biting pest, / Of camp and bivouac, the bane of rest!"
"But Mam, Mam, what about that stark and wormy Sir Libogran, that . . . dragocidal maniac? Did he really live hoppishly ever after as well, unhaunted by his bloodful crime?"
"The European rabbit flea (Spilopsyllus cuniculi Dale) confines itself, absolutely, to the European rabbit. For that matter, it confines itself, almost exclusively, to the rabbit’s thin-skinned, bloodful ears."

Etymology

From blood + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: blood

Inflected Forms

more bloodful (comparative) most bloodful (superlative)

Questions

What does bloodful mean?: Full of blood.
Where does bloodful come from?: From blood + -ful.

How to pronounce bloodful

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