groanful

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adjective

agonizing; painful

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Meanings

adjectivegroanful (comparative more groanful, superlative most groanful)

comparative more groanful · superlative most groanful

  1. obsoleteagonizing; painful

    Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
agonizingailsomehellishpainablepainfultormentuous

Origin

From groan + -ful.

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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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