单词 | -ful |
释义 | -fulsuffix ▶ USAGE Where the amount held by a spoon, etc, is used as a rough unit of measurement, thecorrect form is spoonful, etc: take a spoonful of this medicine every day. Spoon full is used in a sentence such as he held out a spoon full of dark liquid, where full of describes the spoon. A plural form such as spoonfuls is preferred by many speakers and writers to spoonsful1. (forming adjectives) full of or characterized by painful spiteful restful 2. (forming adjectives) able or tending to helpful useful 3. (forming nouns) indicating as much as will fill the thing specified mouthful spoonful Word origin Old English -ful, -full, from full1 |
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