单词 | rewardful |
释义 | rewardfuladj. That yields or produces reward; rewarding. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [adjective] > rewarding > bringing recompense remuneratory1586 rewardful1595 remunerating1608 1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B2 Whose grace was great, & bounty most rewardfull. 1645 D. North Forest of Varieties i. 7 What good and worthy mind hath its being, that is not bent as upon its felicity either to the love of women the most naturall, of men the most noble, or above all of God the most happy and rewardfull? 1764 T. Morell To Mr. Thomson in Poet. Mag. Jan. 37 Where listless sprites..Nor heed rewardful toil, nor seeken [sic] praise. 1843 D. W. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook in Illuminated Mag. 1 242/2 Blessings rewardful of their piety. 1903 A. Ainger Crabbe xi. 198 What is best and most rewardful in the study of Crabbe. 2000 E. Komor in A. K. Gupta & N. Kaur Carbohydrate Reserves in Plants 46 It would be most rewardful to isolate sugar carrier genes from sugarcane stalk and to look for passive sugar transporters. Derivatives reˈwardfulness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] > quality of being rewarding rewardfulness1873 rewardingness1931 1873 Scribner's Monthly 6 30 Of the beauty, the rewardfulness of the place, I cannot trust myself to speak. 1899 A. W. Ward Hist. Eng. Dramatic Lit. (ed. 2) I. iii. 445 Without having so broadly formulated her conceptions either of her royal dignity or its ‘rewardfulness’ to poets (dramatic or other), Queen Elisabeth..had a most genuine and enduring love of the drama. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1595 |
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