endful

English

Alternative forms

• endfull (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English *endful (suggested by the Middle English adverb endfully), equivalent to end +‎ -ful.

Adjective

endful (comparative more endful, superlative most endful)

1. Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
   • 1902, Iowa State Horticultural Society, Transactions - Volume 36 - Page 159:

     An overgrown fence row or an old thicket became a study of deepest interest by reason of these endful provisions which became as "the rocks for the coveys," a refuge in danger.

   • 2011, Persecution, Plague, and Fire:

     The Changeling is the play that I find most concretely voices this defiance, even as it refutes in absolute terms earlier efforts to make something endful out of the theater's empty show.

Antonyms

• endless (obsolete, sense 3)

Derived terms

• endfulness

Anagrams

• denful, fluden