Desertful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) deserving; meritorious.

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) deserving; meritorious
2. Enough to fill a desert.

Example Sentences

I ought to have been a naturalised burgher of a year's standing; but Ohio's my State, and I wouldn't have gone back on her for a desertful of Dutchmen.

Nothing but sand. Desertsful of the stuff.

THE COURSE ALSO features lakes and streams that come into play on the majority of the holes and desertsful of sand.

I find the show amazingly entertaining, though much of what is discussed has to be taken with a desertful of salt.

But like just about everybody else in their cozy little suburb, with the big Victorian houses that guzzled desertfuls of heating oil each winter, they were house poor, oil poor, tax poor.

Thanks to the symmetry of Urdu grammar, the second line could also be read, “A doormat is a desertful of rose-glory.” But of course, to measure the glory of roses in “desertfuls” means there really may not be much of it at all.

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• more desertful
• most desertful
• desertfuls
• desertsful

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