likeful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.
Adjective[edit]
likeful (comparative more likeful, superlative most likeful)
- (rare, archaic, dialectal or humorous) Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
- 1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures:
- […] 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.
- 1995, Allen Sture, Of Thoughts And Words:
- […] 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.
- 2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain:
- "This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful.