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English
Etymology
From Middle English *endful (suggested by the Middle English adverb endfully), equivalent to end + -ful.
Adjective
endful (comparative more endful, superlative most endful)
- Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
1902, Iowa State Horticultural Society, Transactions - Volume 36 - Page 159: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.
- 2011, Persecution, Plague, and Fire:
- 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.
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