researchful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

research +‎ -ful

Adjective[edit]

researchful (comparative more researchful, superlative most researchful)

  1. Making researches; inquisitive.
    • 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.