Word Meanings - GROANFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Agonizing; sad. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to GROANFUL)

• AGONIZINGLY
  With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
• AGONIZE
  Etym: 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope. 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• ANTAGONIZE
  To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.