Meanings
comparative more likeful · superlative most likeful
- archaicdialectalhumorousrareLikeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
"This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful.
2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain2 more examples
[…] that they put the said word in al their English Bibles, with the likeful consent as before, when it is not in the Greeke at al.
1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures[…] and can sometimes even churn up a huge and hazy cloud of closeknit mindgropings, which when written down might, with luck, reach across to other thinkbeasts and in them trigger wonderings of a likeful kind.
1995, Allen Sture, Of Thoughts And Words
Origin
- Middle Englishlikful
- Englishlikeful
From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.
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likeful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/likeful
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