dernful

From dern +‎ -ful.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɜː(ɹ)nfəl/

dernful (comparative more dernful, superlative most dernful)

1. (obsolete, poetic) secret, lonely, sad, or mournful
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, The Mourning Muse of Thestylis:

     dernful noise

   • 1886, George Moore, A Drama in Muslin:

     dernful alley

• “dernful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.