knowledgeful
/ˈnɑləd͡ʒf(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "No one asks in New York, "Is he good? is he noble, self-sacrificing, intellectual, knowledgeful?" Oh no. The Manhattanites feel no need of all these things. They ask only one question, far more cognate than such trivial incidentals,—"How much money has he got?""
- "The whole country is full of interest, and even to this date Alexander [the Great]'s route through it to the Indus, and beyond that river to the Jhelum may be traced by a careful and knowledgeful explorer."
- "As a "system" to be applied anywhere, all the particular town can do is to place its music in charge of its best performer and most knowledgeful local critic—minimum two people with some mutual respect and deference. [From The Delphian Quarterly.]"
- "[T]he right and responsibility to select the name rests fully upon the father himself, and a knowledgeful man will make the selection in the privacy of his thoughts."
- "It is not that my seven-year-old niece does not know what a teacher is. I have no reason to doubt that her excitement at the prospect of seeing her teacher once term begins is knowledgeful. It is that my niece's explicit utterance is not as abundantly stocked with appropriate responsiveness to implicit inferential relations as it needs to be in this instance."
Etymology
From knowledge + -ful (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɑləd͡ʒf(ə)l/
- British English: /ˈnɒlɪd͡ʒfʊl/
Inflected Forms
more knowledgeful (comparative)
most knowledgeful (superlative)
Derived Forms
knowledgefully
unknowledgeful