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gustful

gustful adjective: gusty.

Adjective

gustful (comparative more gustful, superlative most gustful)

  1. gusty
    • [T]hey sat / Beneath a world-old yew-tree, darkening half / The cloisters, on a gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke / Above them, […]1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 102
  2. (obsolete) tasty; good-tasting
    • The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long.1669, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened
    Antonyms:
    disgustful

Noun

gustful (plural gustfuls or gustsful)

  1. (uncommon) An amount carried in a gust.
    • The wind, ruffling up the lane, drove a gustful of loose sand against her like spray, and bore in the hollow boom of breaking waves, which seemed to take her breath.1909, Jane Barlow, “A Woman Ever Vext”, in Irish Ways, London: George Allen & Sons, page 144
    • In the pictures we get a view of miles of scenery, the mountain tops, the horsemen galloping along the road, the soldiers charging a position. We see the waving of the tree branches, the wind blowing the girl's tresses. We get nature in gustfuls.1912 December, “Have Picture Theaters Come to Stay?”, in The Cinema News and Property Gazette, volume I, number II, page 19

gustful meaning in Urdu

gustful in Urdu

غصیلا, لطیف, لذیذ, مزیدار, طوفانی

Examples of gustful in a sentence

  • The birds began to drop, loose bundles of feathers that bounced as they hit the ground, and made an ankh as the last gustful of wind was knocked out of them.1955, Anthony West, chapter 3, in Heritage, Random House, page 148:
  • […] as a tree trunk stirs somewhere in front into a dark-cloaked shepherd boy rising like a goblin gustful of leaves and staring from under his old cloth cap, dumb till I’m past him.1992 [1991], Charles Lister, “Fondi” (chapter 4), in Between Two Seas: A Walk Down the Appian Way, Great Britain: Minerva, page 51:

Antonyms of gustful

Forms of gustful

Adjective
comparativemore gustful
superlativemost gustful
Noun
pluralgustfuls
pluralgustsful

Origin of gustful

From gust + -ful.

Words formed from gustful

Questions about gustful

What does gustful mean?
Gustful means gusty.
What is gustful in Urdu?
Gustful in Urdu is غصیلا, لطیف, لذیذ. See Gustful meaning in Urdu.
How do you use gustful in a sentence?
The birds began to drop, loose bundles of feathers that bounced as they hit the ground, and made an ankh as the last gustful of wind was knocked out of them.
What part of speech is gustful?
Gustful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near gustful in the dictionary

  1. Gustavson
  2. Gustavsons
  3. Gustavus
  4. gustducin
  5. gusted
  6. gustful
  7. gustfully
  8. gustfulness
  9. gustfuls
  10. Gustie
  11. gustier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gustful (page history and authors); gustful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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