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dreamful

dreamful adjective: dreamy.

Adjective

dreamful (comparative more dreamful, superlative most dreamful)

  1. (poetic) Dreamy
    • Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease!1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 113

Noun

dreamful (plural dreamfuls or dreamsful)

  1. As much as one can dream about.
    • It is filled with dreamfuls of Genii, and Houris, and beautiful slave girls, and the almost unimaginable pomp of the Commander of the Faithful, with his black banner; and oh! such moonlight nights, and illuminated pavilions, and sleeping boats upon silent streams, and the mufti, and the minaret...1968, John Sullivan Dwight, Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature, page 82
    • Or Mistral, after the dry wind and for her who wished a fisher's daughter a dreamful of fish, leaping and aglow.1993, Bomb, page 83

Forms of dreamful

Adjective
comparativemore dreamful
superlativemost dreamful
Noun
pluraldreamfuls
pluraldreamsful

Origin of dreamful

From dream + -ful.

Words formed from dreamful

Questions about dreamful

What does dreamful mean?
Dreamful means dreamy.
What part of speech is dreamful?
Dreamful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dreamful in the dictionary

  1. dreames
  2. dreamest
  3. dreameth
  4. dreamfish
  5. dreamfishes
  6. dreamful
  7. dreamfully
  8. dreamfulness
  9. dreamfuls
  10. dreamgaze
  11. dreamgirl

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