groanful en · ADJ
Etymology
From groan + -ful.
Meanings
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(obsolete) agonizing; 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most groanful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more groanful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |