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bookful

bookful adjective: full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.

Adjective

bookful (comparative more bookful, superlative most bookful)

  1. (obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
    • The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, section XXXV

Noun

bookful (plural bookfuls or booksful)

  1. As much as a book holds.

Forms of bookful

Adjective
comparativemore bookful
superlativemost bookful
Noun
pluralbookfuls
pluralbooksful

Origin of bookful

From book + -ful.

Questions about bookful

What does bookful mean?
Bookful means full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
What part of speech is bookful?
Bookful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bookful in the dictionary

  1. bookfells
  2. bookflap
  3. bookflaps
  4. bookfluencer
  5. bookfluencers
  6. bookful
  7. bookfuls
  8. Bookham
  9. bookhoard
  10. bookhoards
  11. bookholder

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