-ful

full of, resembling

Usage

  • wistful

    People who are wistful are rather sad because they want something but know that they cannot have it, especially something that they used to have in the past.

  • fulsome

    Praise, an apology, or gratitude is fulsome if it is so exaggerated and elaborate that it does not seem sincere.

  • baleful

    Someone is baleful if they are filled with bad intent, anger, or hatred towards another person.

  • vengeful

    If you are vengeful, you want to get back at someone for something that they did to you because you are unwilling to forgive them.

  • plentiful

    A plentiful amount of something, such as food, is more than enough of it.

  • beautiful

    delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

  • bountiful

    given or giving freely

  • distasteful

    not pleasing in odor or taste

  • dreadful

    causing fear or dread or terror

  • forceful

    forceful and definite in expression or action

  • grateful

    feeling or showing gratitude

  • harmful

    causing or capable of causing harm

  • healthful

    conducive to good health of body or mind

  • merciful

    showing or giving mercy

  • mirthful

    full of or showing high-spirited merriment

  • mournful

    expressing sorrow

  • resourceful

    having inner resources

  • shameful

    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

  • skillful

    having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

  • tearful

    filled with or marked by tears

  • truthful

    expressing or given to expressing the truth

  • woeful

    affected by or full of grief or woe

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