Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

showerful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: show-er-ful
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of showers; rainy, teary, etc.

noun

A quantity that falls in a shower.

Example Sentences

"The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent, And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring Stared at the spate."
"Why so woe-begone ? and why, Philaenis, these reckless tearings of hair, and suffusion of showerful eyes ?"
"It was warm there too in the last icy spasms of winter. The spring was showerful."
"Enlil hates me and I can no longer dwell among you, can no longer set my footsteps on the soil that is Enlils; but if I go down into the Apsu, dwelling with my lord Ea, then will Enlil send you showerfuls, raining down abundance on you."
"After the first showerful of earth was flung in over the victims, the infant Patsy stirred his feeble hand slightly."
"white snow falls from the sky o o w o o in small drops in big drops in whole showersful"

Etymology

From shower + -ful. Likely coined by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: shower

Inflected Forms

more showerful (comparative) most showerful (superlative) showerfuls (plural) showersful (plural)

Questions

What does showerful mean?: Full of showers; rainy, teary, etc.
Where does showerful come from?: From shower + -ful. Likely coined by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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