dueful

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adjective

Suitable, appropriate.

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Meanings

adjectivedueful (comparative more dueful, superlative most dueful)

comparative more dueful · superlative most dueful

  1. archaicSuitable, appropriate.

    her lives Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserved, as his duefull meed, / Her love, her service, and her utmost wealth […]

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

Origin

From due + -ful.

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APA

dueful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dueful

MLA

“dueful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dueful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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

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