Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yearful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: year-ful
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).

adj

Full of years; elderly; aged.

Example Sentences

"He had three yearsful of news to relate and in it all not a word of discouragement, but enthusiasm for what has already been done and plans for what is yet to be done."
"This is what I have been saying in these eight and twenty volumes of collected works and in this yearful of newspaper articles, and after a rest it is quite possible I shall go on saying it some more."
"[…] but into the quiet haunts of the yearful ones ye cannot as yet hope for admission."
"[…] an encampment of these Sioux, com posed of nearly two hundred persons, of both sexes, and of different ages, from the yearful father of the chief, to his small grand-child, a pappoose of tender years."
"Pity the yearful tree, green branches torn, fronting to-morrow's winds because it must."

Etymology

From year + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: year

Inflected Forms

yearfuls (plural) yearsful (plural) more yearful (comparative) most yearful (superlative)

Questions

What does yearful mean?: The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).
Where does yearful come from?: From year + -ful.

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