Dictionary

endful en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:
   • 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

Forms

Antonyms

endless

Deriveds

endfulness