ruleful en · ADJ
Etymology
From rule + -ful.
Meanings
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Based on rules.
Dream psychology badly needs a "scientific" (ruleful, reliable) way of identifying and determining the interrelatedness of those associative and motivational structures […]
1978, David Foulkes, A grammar of dreams, page 320:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more ruleful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most ruleful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |