Words that rhyme with wakeful

• artful 0
  adj 1: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" [syn: disingenuous, artful] [ant: artless, ingenuous] 2: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" [ant: artless]
• boastful 0
  adj 1: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self- aggrandising]
• deceitful 0
  adj 1: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent] 2: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]
• delightful 0
  adj 1: greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke" [syn: delightful, delicious]
• disrespectful 0
  adj 1: exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous; "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher" [ant: respectful] 2: neither feeling nor showing respect [syn: aweless, awless, disrespectful]
• doubtful 0
  adj 1: open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought"- Karen Horney [syn: doubtful, dubious, dubitable, in question(p)] 2: fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go" [syn: doubtful, dubious] 3: unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions" [syn: doubtful, tentative]
• fateful 0
  adj 1: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [syn: fateful, fatal] 2: ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous] 3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]
• fitful 0
  adj 1: occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire" [syn: fitful, spasmodic] 2: intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: fitful, interrupted, off-and-on(a)]
• fretful 0
  adj 1: nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" [syn: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy] 2: habitually complaining; "a whiny child" [syn: fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny]
• frightful 0
  adj 1: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly] 2: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous] 3: extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" [syn: fearful, frightful]
• fruitful 0
  adj 1: productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply" [ant: unfruitful]
• grateful 0
  adj 1: feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile" [syn: grateful, thankful] [ant: thankless, ungrateful, unthankful] 2: affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire"
• hateful 0
  adj 1: evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly [ant: lovable, loveable] 2: characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" [syn: hateful, mean]
• hurtful 0
  adj 1: causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words" 2: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]
• lustful 0
  adj 1: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious] 2: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful] 3: vigorously passionate [syn: lustful, lusty, concupiscent]
• neglectful 0
  adj 1: not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents" [syn: inattentive, neglectful] 2: failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills" [syn: derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss]
• respectful 0
  adj 1: full of or exhibiting respect; "respectful behavior"; "a respectful glance" [ant: disrespectful] 2: feeling or manifesting veneration [syn: respectful, reverential, venerating]
• restful 0
  adj 1: affording physical or mental rest; "she spent a restful night at home" [syn: restful, reposeful, relaxing] [ant: restless, uneasy]
• rightful 0
  adj 1: legally valid; "a rightful inheritance" 2: having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king" [syn: true(a), lawful, rightful(a)]
• spiteful 0
  adj 1: showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment" [syn: despiteful, spiteful, vindictive]
• tactful 0
  adj 1: having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark eased her embarrassment" [ant: tactless, untactful] 2: showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a tactful way of correcting someone"; "the agency got the kid- glove treatment on Capitol Hill" [syn: tactful, kid- glove]
• tasteful 0
  adj 1: having or showing or conforming to good taste [ant: tasteless] 2: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" [syn: neat, refined, tasteful]
• thankful 0
  adj 1: feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile" [syn: grateful, thankful] [ant: thankless, ungrateful, unthankful]
• thoughtful 0
  adj 1: having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay" 2: exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" [ant: thoughtless] 3: acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man" [syn: thoughtful, serious-minded] 4: taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" [syn: heedful, attentive, thoughtful, paying attention] [ant: heedless, unheeding] 5: considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
• trustful 0
  adj 1: inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful, trusting] [ant: distrustful]
• uneventful 0
  adj 1: marked by no noteworthy or significant events; "an uneventful life"; "the voyage was pleasant and uneventful"; "recovery was uneventful" [ant: eventful]
• ungrateful 0
  adj 1: not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare [syn: ungrateful, thankless, unthankful] [ant: grateful, thankful] 2: disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln
• wasteful 0
  adj 1: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [syn: uneconomical, wasteful] 2: tending to squander and waste [ant: thrifty] 3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
• wistful 0
  adj 1: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [syn: pensive, wistful]
• zestful 0
  adj 1: marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: zestful, yeasty, zesty, barmy]

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