breezeful
breezeful adjective: having breezes.
Adjective
breezeful (comparative more breezeful, superlative most breezeful)
- Having breezes.
- Oft' in the mournful shade I sit
Amidst the breezeful wind :
And, by its sighs, their mem'ry lorn
Comes rushing on my mind.1817, John Shackleton, “Carric-thura”, in James Macpherson, transl., The Poems of Ossian, volume 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, page 226 - […] and there is a confusion of embroidery and white linen and silk hose that fills the eye of the man in the parquette with a flash of joy and causes a warm still wind to roll in a breezeful way around his cardiacal region.1882, John J. Jennings, “Fishing for Free Puffs” (chapter XXI), in Theatrical and Circus Life; or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust Arena, St. Louis: Sun Publishing Company, page 309
- Oft' in the mournful shade I sit
Noun
breezeful (plural breezefuls)
- An amount carried in a breeze.
- Quickly she looked left and right, then left again, like doing her kerb drill. There was no one, only a breezeful of leaves and an empty Embassy cigarette packet in the gutter.1968, David Pinner, chapter 9, in With My Body, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 70
- For if a cupful of mint tea or a spoonful of mint jelly is a tonic for frayed nerves, how much more powerful its curative properties would be if mixed with a skyful of sunshine and floating clouds and a breezeful of woodsy scents.1970 May [1954], Annora Brown, “Old Man's Medicine Bag” (chapter V), in Old Man's Garden, Gray's Publishing, Mint, page 97
Examples of breezeful in a sentence
- From exercising in the open air all that delightful, breezeful morning, their appetites became immensely whetted for a full enjoyment of the rich repast.1906, Mattie Sampson Smith, “At the Picnic”, in Miss Claire's pupils, The National Baptist Publishing House, page 78:
- One tree could let loose a whole breezeful of millions, even billions, of spores.1970, Margaret Cosgrove, “Journey to the Two-sex Way” (chapter 4), in Seeds, Embryos, and Sex, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 25:
- She coughed as a breezeful of dust came in from the window.2003, Mongo, “The Demon Drive” (chapter 13), in America's Keenest City, […], page 270:
- He squeezes onto the metal bleacher beside me and I catch a breezeful of his cinnamony smell.2014 September, Donna Cooner, Can't Look Away, Point, page 263:
Forms of breezeful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more breezeful |
| superlative | most breezeful |
| Noun | |
| plural | breezefuls |
Origin of breezeful
From breeze + -ful.
Questions about breezeful
- What does breezeful mean?
- Breezeful means having breezes.
- How do you use breezeful in a sentence?
- From exercising in the open air all that delightful, breezeful morning, their appetites became immensely whetted for a full enjoyment of the rich repast.
- What part of speech is breezeful?
- Breezeful can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near breezeful in the dictionary
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