strifeful

English

Alternative forms
  • strifull [16th c.]

Etymology

From strife +‎ -ful.

Adjective

strifeful (comparative more strifeful, superlative most strifeful)

  1. Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
    Antonym: strifeless
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
      But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].

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