shadeful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shade +‎ -ful

Adjective[edit]

shadeful (comparative more shadeful, superlative most shadeful)

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

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