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researchful

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Making researches; inquisitive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.

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Etymology

From research + -ful.