deviceful

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/dɪˈvaɪsfəl/

adjective

Full of devices; inventive.

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Meanings

adjectivedeviceful (comparative more deviceful, superlative most deviceful)

comparative more deviceful · superlative most deviceful

  1. archaicFull of devices; inventive.

    A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread.

    1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC
    1 more example

    To tell the glorie of the feast that day, / The goodly service, the deviceful sights, / […] Were worke fit for an Heraud, not for me […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From device + -ful.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deviceful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deviceful.

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