endful

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adjective

Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.

Opposite
Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveendful (comparative more endful, superlative most endful)

comparative more endful · superlative most endful · alternative endfull

  1. Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.

    An overgrown fence row or an old thicket became a study of deepest interest by reason of these endful provisions which became as "the rocks for the coveys," a refuge in danger.

    1902, Iowa State Horticultural Society, Transactions - Volume 36 - Page 159
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    The Changeling is the play that I find most concretely voices this defiance, even as it refutes in absolute terms earlier efforts to make something endful out of the theater's empty show.

    2011, Persecution, Plague, and Fire

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Origin

  1. Middle English*endful
  2. Englishendful

From Middle English *endful (suggested by the Middle English adverb endfully), equivalent to end + -ful.

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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