dernful

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Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈdɜː(ɹ)nfəl/

Adjective edit

dernful (comparative more dernful, superlative most dernful)

(obsolete) secret; lonely, sad, mournful
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, The Mourning Muse of Thestylis:
  dernful noise

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dernful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)