warful

warful

English

Etymology

From war +‎ -ful.

Adjective

warful (comparative more warful, superlative most warful)

1. Indicative of war; warlike.
   • 1733, Paul Whitehead, The State Dunces

     Hence the long Train of never-ending Jars / Of warful Peaces, and of peaceful Wars, […]

   • 1943, Linus R. Fike, No nation alone: a plan for organized peace (page 56)

     Sabotage being itself a warful act and carrying its own penalty, would not excuse the original unwarful act nor any subsequent unwarful acts of counter-retaliation.

   • 2003, Richard Schechner, The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance (page 181)

     The similarity of these Indian and Greek tales of far-ranging warful travels should not surprise us: their authors were people of the horse, they rode far in several directions—south, west, east—from their “origins” in the Caucasus region; […]

Derived terms

• warfully