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hapful

hapful adjective: full of happenings; eventful.

Adjective

hapful (comparative more hapful, superlative most hapful)

  1. (poetic, rare) Full of happenings; eventful.
    • Along about the blanching of the east, / When sleep is weirdest and a moment's flight, / Remembered coextensive with the night, / May teem with hapful years; / as light in smoke / Upon the jumble of Hugh's dreaming broke / A buzz of human voices.2002, John G. Neihardt, A Cycle of the West
  2. (poetic, rare) Lucky; happy.
    • “Hapless? I'd like to think I'm rather hapful.”2018, Tiffany Schmidt, Bookish Boyfriends: A Date with Darcy

Forms of hapful

comparativemore hapful
superlativemost hapful

Origin of hapful

From hap + -ful.

Questions about hapful

What does hapful mean?
Hapful means full of happenings; eventful.
What part of speech is hapful?
Hapful is an adjective.

Words near hapful in the dictionary

  1. HAPC
  2. hapchance
  3. HAPCs
  4. HAPE
  5. hapetectomy
  6. hapful
  7. haphazard
  8. haphazardly
  9. haphazardness
  10. haphazardnesses
  11. haphazardous

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