strifeful
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- strifull [16th c.]
Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]strifeful (comparative more strifeful, superlative most strifeful)
- Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
- Antonym: strifeless
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].