debateful en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ] (UK)
Etymology
From debate + -ful.
Meanings
-
(obsolete) Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most debateful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more debateful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |