Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

taleful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tale-ful
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Abounding with stories.

Example Sentences

"The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic."
"To see the houshold flock around the fire, The children listening to the taleful Sire, To hear the song— harmless sports to join, Live o'er past days, and call these blessings mine!"
"Because democracy is not an upstart which is backed by no good pedigree and tradition. The history of democracy is fairly long and quite taleful too."
"Would her taleful past that delimited her present project into her taleful future - or taleless!"

Etymology

From tale + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tale

Inflected Forms

more taleful (comparative) most taleful (superlative)

Questions

What does taleful mean?: Abounding with stories.
Where does taleful come from?: From tale + -ful.

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