adj. I. grievous, vexatious, troublous, woeful:--Se teónfulla dæg (the last day), Wulfst. 187, 3. Hú geswincful and hú teónful ðis líf is how full of travail and trouble this life is, 273, 6. Ða teónfullan infesta, Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 15. II. of persons, (1) causing hurt or injury:--Teónfullum on teso so as to hurt the harmful (those who were attending to the fiery furnace), Cd. Th. 232, 4; Dan. 255. (2) causing vexation or annoyance, exasperating, I:--Mǽgþ teónful generatio exasperans, Ps. Spl. 77, 10. III. insolent, abusive, contumelious, contemptuous, calumnious:--Teónful injuriosus, geflitful contentiosus, Wrt. Voc. i. 49, 32: 74, 32. Se mynstres hordere sí . . . ná dréfend ne teónful (non turbulentus, non injuriosus), R. Ben. 54, 9. Dú ne scealt nánne man wyrigan, ne nǽnne man tǽlan, ne teónful beón, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 359. Ys steór leás on múþe teónfulles (contumeliosi), Scint. 114, 9. Teónfulle wé synd contumeliosi sumus,155, 14. Wǽron hí æfter æþelborennesse oferhýdige and hearmcwydole . . . Hí ðurh-wunedon on heora teónfullum wordum they persisted in their insolent language, Homl. Th. ii. 174, 14. [In þa teonfulle (destructive) sæ, Laym. 4585.] teon-full