Meanings
comparative more endful · superlative most endful · alternative endfull
- 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 1591 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle English*endful
- Englishendful
From Middle English *endful (suggested by the Middle English adverb endfully), equivalent to end + -ful.
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endful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endful
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