| 单词 | ful |
| 释义 | -ful (-fʊl) Word forms: plural -fuls suffix You use -ful to form nouns that refer to the quantity of a substance that an object contains or can contain. For example, a handful of sand is the amount of sand that you can hold in your hand. ...a spoonful of brown sugar. -ful in British Englishsuffix ▶ 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-ful in American English (fəl; for 2, usually fʊl) 1. forming adjectives a. full of, characterized by, having joyful, painful b. having the qualities of masterful c. having the ability or tendency to, apt to helpful, forgetful 2. forming nouns the quantity that fills or would fill , the plural is formed by adding -s to the resulting word [teaspoonfuls, handfuls] or, sometimes, by adding -s- between the noun stem and the suffix [cupsful] Word origin ME < OE < full, full1Definition of '-ful' |
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