shadeful

adj

shadeful

adj

Etymology From shade + -ful.

1

Full of shade; shady; shaded.

  • The Eastern Avon vaunts, and doth upon her take To be the only child of shadeful Savernake [Forest],1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, The Third Song, page 61:
  • Let yourself feel; and shadeful trees, Ripe corn, and apples red, Read as things barren and distasteful While we are separated!1917, Thomas Hardy, “Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie)”, in Moments of Vision:

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