foodful
/ˈfudfəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] Athens the fair, where great Erectheus ſway'd, / That ow'd his Nurture to the blue-ey'd Maid, / But from the teeming Furrow took his Birth, / The mighty Offspring of the foodful Earth."
- "The democratick commonwealth is the foodfull nurſe of ambition. […] Whenever, in ſtates which have had a democratick baſis, they have endeavoured to put reſtraints upon ambition, their methods were as violent, as in the end they were ineffectual; as violent indeed as any the moſt jealous deſpotiſm could invent."
- "Mid stormy vapours ever driving by, / Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry; / Where hardly given the hopeless waste to cheer, / Denied the bread of life the foodful ear, / Dwindles the pear on autumn's latest spray, / And apple sickens pale in summer's ray; […]"
- "Of all the conifers[…], this foodful little pine is the commonest tree, and the most important."
- "It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfudfəl/
- British English: /ˈfuːdfəl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more foodful (comparative)
most foodful (superlative)