Strengthful

Origin

From Middle English strengthful, equivalent to strength + -ful.

Full definition of strengthful

Adjective

1. Full of strength; strong; having strength; powerful.
• 1909, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, The ten books of the merrymakers:I couldn't bring myself to say 'No, Ethelinda, I can not be yours because my heart is set on a strengthful damsel with raven locks and eyes of coal, with lips a shade less cherry than thine, and a cheek more like the apple than the peach, ...'
• 1913, Philo Adams Otis, The First Presbyterian church, 1833-1913:But they were both fervent and sincere and breathed of a hopeful, a strengthful, and a trustful spirit.
• 1917, George Washington Truett, James Britton Cranfill, A Quest for Souls:The longer that sin is indulged, the mightier, the more strengthful, the more binding does it become in a human life.

Derived terms

• strengthfulness

Antonyms

• strengthless