acheful

acheful

English

Etymology

ache +‎ -ful

Adjective

acheful (comparative more acheful, superlative most acheful)

1. full of aches; aching
   • 1898, Thomas Hardy, My Cicely (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)

     I mounted a steed in the dawning / With acheful remembrance.

   • 1908, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber (T. Fisher Unwin London)

     Why recall the memory of those acheful days, when all the pleasant and restful features of the island are uncatalogued?

   • 1997, Hole (band), Old Age (song)

     We all know that she is nameless / Spits at music it's not an issue / Just remove the acheful tissue […]

Derived terms

• achefully

Translations

full of aches

German: schmerzhaft (de), schmerzend (de)

Turkish: ağrılı (tr), sancılı (tr)

Anagrams

• faluche