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Definition: Prayerful |
PrayerfulAdjective1. Disposed to pray or appearing to pray. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prayerful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references) |
Crosswords: Prayerful |
| English words defined with "prayerful": The devout. (references) |
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| "Prayerful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prayerful" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "prayerful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që lutet rregullisht, i devotshëm (dedicated, devotional, devout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ورع (devout, god fearing, godliness, holy, pious, religious, religiousness, righteous, righteousness, saintly, sanctity), تقي (devout, godliness, godly, holy, immaculate, mystic, pious, religious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сериозен (earnest, grave, heavy, intent, sad, sage, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, somber, sombre, staid, steady, straight), набожен (devotional, devout, godly, pi, pious, religious), искрен (bona fide, candid, cordial, deep-felt, devout, earnest, genuine, heart-to-heart, hearty, honest, outright, outspoken, plain, sincere, single, single-eyed, unalloyed, unfeigned, unreserved, untutored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zbožný (devout, holy, pious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pieux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσευχόμενοσ (prayer), ευσεβήσ (devout, pious), ευλαβήσ (devotional, devout, regardful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | imádságos (devotional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | devoto (acquiescent, attached, be, devoted, devotee, devotional, devout, godly, pious, religious, resign oneself, result, staunch, votary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayerfulpray piedoso (believer, devotional, devout, godly, holy, merciful, pi, pious, sainted), religioso (believer, devotional, devout, divine, godly, pious, religioner, religious), devoto (ascetic, devotee, devotional, devout, godly, obedientiary, pi, pious, votary). (various references) молитвенный, богомольный. (various references) pobožan (devout, pi, pious, religious, saintlike, sanctimonious). (various references) devoto (devoted, devotee, devotional, devout, pietistic, votary, worshipper). (various references) from (devotional, devour, devout, gentle, good tempered, pious, quiet, religious), andäktig (attentive, devour, devout). (various references) ibadet eden, dualı, dini bütün, dindar (devotee, devotional, devout, godfearing, godly, pious, religious). (various references) молитовний, богомільний (churchy). (various references) thích cầu nguyện, sùng tín; hay cầu nguyện. (various references) gweddigar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | supplex. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prayerful": prayerfully, prayerfulness, prayerfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Prayerful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drawerful, prayerfuly, riverful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prayerful" (pronounced pre"rful or prā"erful) |
| 5 | -e" r f u l | careful. |
| 4 | -r f u l | cheerful, fearful, tearful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
| 4 | -er f u l | colorful, flavorful, masterful, powerful, wonderful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-p-r-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: flareup, palfrey. | |
-3 letters: earful, ferula, flayer, fleury, flurry, furler, larrup, parley, parrel, parure, pearly, player, pleura, prayer, purely, purfle, rarefy, rarely, replay, uprear, yauper. | |
-4 letters: apery, early, faery, farer, farle, feral, ferly, ferry, feuar, flare, flyer, fryer, furry, layer, layup, leafy, leary, lurer, paler, parer, pareu, parle, parry, payer, pearl, perry, plyer, pryer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-p-r-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: prayerfully. | |
+4 letters: prayerfulness, reproachfully. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 61 79 65 72 66 75 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .- -.--. . .-. ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100001 01111001 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r a y e r f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0061 0079 0065 0072 0066 0075 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508467917184728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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