Etymology

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Today it means: Powerful; mighty. Full definition →

Middle English meinful
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  1. Middle English · inherited frommeinful
  2. English todaymainful

From Middle English meinful, mainful, maynful; equivalent to main (“power, might”) + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.