ageful

adj
/ˈeɪd͡ʒfl̩/US

Etymology

From age + -ful.

  1. inherited from agen
  2. derived from *h₂eyu-
  3. derived from aetas
  4. derived from *aetāticum
  5. derived from eage
  6. inherited from age
  7. suffixed as ageful — “age + ful

Definitions

  1. Aged, elderly, old.

    • Poor Hans, with watery eye, and ache at heart, / Glanced at the tambour; she is lost to him. / Hirschvogel sat crossed-legged, his glasses up, / And watched for what might hap, with ageful fire.
    • Of course, it also represents the courtesy of the old men of the country, with their eylids drooping into ageful insipidity and ageful sleep and their bodies leaning over the age-old sticks without which can they hardly stand.
  2. Eternal, everlasting.

  3. An eternity, a perpetuity.

    • I thank you, Sir; for one minutes commendations from a perſon that has kept a conſtant regiſter of Conſequences is worth an age-ful from any body elſe.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA