noteful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "[...] an introduction, 'after the statutes of our doctors,' to the theory of astrology, with tables of equations of houses, after the latitude of Oxford, and tables of dignities of planets, and other noteful things."
- "The immediate irony, of course, is that Pandarus is associating his own misguided advice with harmonious music though Troilus, like the prisoner, is more in need of "noteful sciences" [...]"
- "I found the Health Fair to be exciting and to be very noteful to me and to others."
Etymology
From Middle English noteful, notful (“useful”), from note (“use, need”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō, *nutjō, *nutą (“use, enjoyment”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”) + -ful. Equivalent to note + -ful. Related to Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old English nyttian (“to make use of, utilize”), Old English nytlīċ (“useful, profitable, beneficial”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more noteful (comparative)
most noteful (superlative)