Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

warful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: war-ful
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Indicative of war; warlike.

Example Sentences

"Hence the long Train of never-ending Jars / Of warful Peaces, and of peaceful Wars, […]"
"Sabotage being itself a warful act and carrying its own penalty, would not excuse the original unwarful act nor any subsequent unwarful acts of counter-retaliation."
"The similarity of these Indian and Greek tales of far-ranging warful travels should not surprise us: their authors were people of the horse, they rode far in several directions—south, west, east—from their “origins” in the Caucasus region; […]"

Etymology

From war + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: war

Inflected Forms

more warful (comparative) most warful (superlative)

Derived Forms

warfully

Questions

What does warful mean?: Indicative of war; warlike.
Where does warful come from?: From war + -ful.

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