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REGARDFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does regardful mean?
• REGARDFUL (adjective)
The adjective REGARDFUL has 1 sense:
1. showing deference
Familiarity information: REGARDFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing deference
Synonyms:
deferent; deferential; regardful
Similar:
respectful (full of or exhibiting respect)
Context examples
She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Not considering in how different a circle she had been just seeing him, nor how much might be owing to contrast, she was quite persuaded of his being astonishingly more gentle and regardful of others than formerly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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