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Webster 1913 Edition


Numberful

Num′ber-ful

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Adj.
Numerous.
[Obs.]

Definition 2024


numberful

numberful

English

Adjective

numberful (comparative more numberful, superlative most numberful)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Many in number; numerous.
    • 2006, David Pear, Facing Percy Grainger:
      He continued in this tone, noting that lands well ungifted in toneart—we know that altho the Jews are the most numberful of all the mindtilthed ((educated)) races in Europe (races lacking in mindtilth may birth lovelier toneart than mindtilled [...]
    • 2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood - Page 89:
      Birdless, faunaless moons were inhabited, and these bottomful, endful, numberful, and limitful moons were artificially frozen, only, in the 6000's. Moonless, sunless, starless, cometless, and blackholeless galaxies were mostly the fact, after the [...]
  2. (rare, nonstandard) Full of numbers.
    • 2013, Gary Lutz, "The Least Sneaky of Things", in PP/FF: An Anthology, ed. by Peter Conners
      [...] would recite the grave, tribulationary instructions on just how every numberful sheet was to be folded untilitwas a contrivementjust shyof becoming aweakbodied box, and then eachwas tobe walked singlefile up tothe deskso that the teacher [...]

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