See behooveful in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for behooveful meaning in English (1.6kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "behoveful"
},
"expansion": "Middle English behoveful",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "behoof",
"3": "ful",
"pos": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "behoof + -ful",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoof + -ful.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more behooveful",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most behooveful",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "behooveful (comparative more behooveful, superlative most behooveful)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English adjectives suffixed with -ful",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "behoovefully"
},
{
"word": "behoovefulness"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous."
],
"id": "en-behooveful-en-adj-t07Ae8GJ",
"links": [
[
"Needful",
"needful"
],
[
"useful",
"useful"
],
[
"fit",
"fit"
],
[
"profitable",
"profitable"
],
[
"advantageous",
"advantageous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "noteful"
},
{
"word": "behoofful"
},
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "behoveful"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "needful, useful",
"word": "notwendig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "needful, useful",
"word": "nützlich"
}
]
}
],
"word": "behooveful"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "behoovefully"
},
{
"word": "behoovefulness"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "behoveful"
},
"expansion": "Middle English behoveful",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "behoof",
"3": "ful",
"pos": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "behoof + -ful",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English behoveful, equivalent to behoof + -ful.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more behooveful",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most behooveful",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "behooveful (comparative more behooveful, superlative most behooveful)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adjectives suffixed with -ful",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous."
],
"links": [
[
"Needful",
"needful"
],
[
"useful",
"useful"
],
[
"fit",
"fit"
],
[
"profitable",
"profitable"
],
[
"advantageous",
"advantageous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Needful; useful; fit; profitable; advantageous."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "noteful"
},
{
"word": "behoofful"
},
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "behoveful"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "needful, useful",
"word": "notwendig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "needful, useful",
"word": "nützlich"
}
],
"word": "behooveful"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.