chapterful

chapterful noun: as much as fills a chapter.

Noun

chapterful (plural chapterfuls or chaptersful)

As much as fills a chapter.
- He cites two chaptersful of specific instances of wasted civilian and uniformed manpower and of waste in procurement of supplies which, if eliminated, would save $3,110,000,000.1952 April 19, Randall Hobart, “Economy or Runaway Inflation? Douglas Crusades for Less Spending”, in Minneapolis Morning Tribune, volume LXXXV, number 331, Minneapolis, Minn., page 4
- Only a rough sketch will be attempted here—partly because this topic could fill up a book of its own and partly because the author does not have a bookful or even a chapterful of ideas on the subject.1970, Saül W. Gellerman, The uses of psychology in management, page 66

I already felt so much about poverty - I set out with chapterfuls of opinions and theories.1992, Robert McLiam Wilson, Donovan Wylie, The Dispossessed, page 180:
Well, we have seen this kind of phenomenon before, and the long-suffering reader will now be expecting a chapterful of negative results on the finite base property for relation-type algebras.2002, Robin Hirsch, Ian Hodkinson, Relation Algebras by Games, page 582:

plural	chapterfuls
plural	chaptersful

From chapter + -ful.

What does chapterful mean?: Chapterful means as much as fills a chapter.
How do you use chapterful in a sentence?: I already felt so much about poverty - I set out with chapterfuls of opinions and theories.
What part of speech is chapterful?: Chapterful is a noun.
What is the plural of chapterful?: The plural of chapterful is chapterfuls.

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