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cultureful

cultureful adjective: focused on culture.

Adjective

cultureful (comparative more cultureful, superlative most cultureful)

  1. Focused on culture.
    • If culture is externalized mind and mind is internalized culture (Cole, 1998), postmodern teaching is about mindful and "cultureful" learning.2008, Lynne T. Díaz-Rico, Strategies for Teaching English Learners, page 65
    • If white middle classness is generic and empty, then charmed Appalachians can access meaning by loose association with less privileged “Appalachians” who supposedly exhibit a more colorful, cultureful way of life.2011, Emily Satterwhite, Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878
  2. Pertaining to intellectual activities.
    • I am sure I'd feel oppressed in a system where so much of leisure activity is expected to be cultureful and self-improving.195?, Stanford University. Libraries, Stanford Library Bulletin - Volume 4, page 58
    • By linking these sub-nationalities to cultures and by exculuding black Jamaicans from his list, he also (perhaps unwittingly) invoked the British colonial ideology that positioned laboring groups arriving in Jamaica after the abolition of slavery as cultureful—that is, as coming from civilizations...2004, Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Modern Blackness

Forms of cultureful

comparativemore cultureful
superlativemost cultureful

Origin of cultureful

From culture + -ful.

Questions about cultureful

What does cultureful mean?
Cultureful means focused on culture.
What part of speech is cultureful?
Cultureful is an adjective.

Words near cultureful in the dictionary

  1. cultured meat
  2. cultured meats
  3. cultured stone
  4. culturedly
  5. culturedness
  6. cultureful
  7. culturejack
  8. culturejacked
  9. culturejacking
  10. culturejacks
  11. cultureless

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