strifeful

English

Alternative forms

• strifull [16th c.]

Etymology

From strife +‎ -ful.

Adjective

strifeful (comparative more strifeful, superlative most strifeful)

1. Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.

   Antonym: strifeless

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].

Anagrams

• ruffliest