endful
adjEtymology From Middle English *endful (suggested by the Middle English adverb endfully), equivalent to end + -ful.
1
Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
- An overgrown fence row or an old thicket became a study of deepest interest by reason of these endful provisions which became as "the rocks for the coveys," a refuge in danger.1902, Iowa State Horticultural Society, Transactions - Volume 36 - Page 159:
- The Changeling is the play that I find most concretely voices this defiance, even as it refutes in absolute terms earlier efforts to make something endful out of the theater's empty show.2011, Persecution, Plague, and Fire
- Antonyms
- endless
- Derived terms
- endfulness