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shadeful en · ADJ

Etymology

From shade + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Full of shade; shady; shaded.
    • Let yourself feel; and shadeful trees, Ripe corn, and apples red, Read as things barren and distasteful While we are separated! 1917, Thomas Hardy, “Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie)”, in Moments of Vision:
    • The Eastern Avon vaunts, and doth upon her take To be the only child of shadeful Savernake [Forest], 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, The Third Song, page 61:

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most shadeful Degree=Sup lexicographic
more shadeful Degree=Cmp lexicographic