Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

likeful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: like-ful
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.

Archaic; Humorous

Example Sentences

"[…] that they put the said word in al their English Bibles, with the likeful consent as before, when it is not in the Greeke at al."
"[…] and can sometimes even churn up a huge and hazy cloud of closeknit mindgropings, which when written down might, with luck, reach across to other thinkbeasts and in them trigger wonderings of a likeful kind."
""This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful."

Etymology

From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: likful
Suffix: like

Usage

Inflected Forms

more likeful (comparative) most likeful (superlative)

Questions

What does likeful mean?: Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
Where does likeful come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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