lifeful
Syllables: life·ful/ˈlaɪf.fʊl/
lifeful adjective: bestowing life; enlivening.
Adjective
lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)
- Bestowing life; enlivening.
- Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Christianity is operating among them in two ways; it exhibits its own glorious life amidst the decadence of antique idolatries, they grow old, and are stricken by the touch of ever-changing time, while Christianity puts forth the vitality and vigour of perennial youth; and while it is itself...1858, Edward Henry Nolan, The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East
- Full of vitality; lively and exuberant.
- Instead of the olden spirit of enterprise, the city seemed to be the home of inertness—one grey and great temple of lassitude. Except the few money-getting American merchants who sojourned there, the only lifeful creatures to be met with are the myriads of insects that swarm in every house, as I...1843, Charles Reece Pemberton, John Fowler (Secretary of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution.), William Johnson Fox, The Life and Literary Remains of C. R. Pemberton
- Like the "little child, a limber elf" in the Conclusion to Part II of "Christabel," this faery child quite bubbles over with "lifeful glee,"1990, Jeanie Watson, Risking enchantment: Coleridge's symbolic world of faery, page 206
- Characteristic of life and living things.
- Pupils are interested most in a variety of literary forms which consist of poetry and literature of a humorous and exciting nature, involving lifeful experiences.1940, Rutgers University. School of Education, Trends in the Teaching of Reading
- Her mouth was moist and tasted of tobacco, and he could feel her heart beat, lifeful and sure, under the small rounds of her breasts.1943, Vera Lebedeff, The Heart Returneth, page 156
Adverb
lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)
- In a lifeful manner; full of life.
- A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.1818, John Keats, Endymion, section I
- Although the auburn and the black hackles are killing enough in the Highland glens and moorlands, and are good general flies, in some favourite places, where the warmer, richer streams flow lifeful from the glorious lake, above the wooded glen that opens on the fertile valley, the ' Professor,'...1848, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine - Volume 38, page 73
Noun
lifeful (plural lifefuls)
- A quantity that fills a lifetime.
- There seems to be an enormous waste of human goodness, while we have at the same time so little of it that we cannot afford, if we only knew our true interests, to lose a single lifeful.1904, Joseph Samuel Exell, Isaiah, page 428
- I have thus rapidly outlined what I think we may fairly describe as about two lifefuls of work, but there still remains a third.1921, The Photographic Journal: Publication of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and the Photographic Alliance, Volume 45
Examples of lifeful in a sentence
- Cheering the dogs to the chase across the "dew spread lawn," he would "drink deep cooling draughts of lifeful air," returning .with a keen zest to the joys of calm philosophy.1912, The Sewanee Review - Volume 20, page 219:
- The restless dance goes on and on Till finite force fills infinite horizon, Till the booming bang of the lifeful Om Reaches back its creative womb.2018, Praveen Kumar, Shobha Priya, page 309:
- “Pupils who had been miserable now became active and lifeful,” she told me with obvious satisfaction.2015, Stephen C. Smith, Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works:
- My view is that what we call feelings, things, sensations, values, moral directives, etc. are intimately linguistic but arc so only so far as they are humanly lifeful.1973, Lee Thayer, Communication: Ethical and Moral Issues, page 307:
Forms of lifeful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more lifeful |
| superlative | most lifeful |
| alternative form | lyfull |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more lifeful |
| superlative | most lifeful |
| Noun | |
| plural | lifefuls |
Origin of lifeful
From life + -ful.
Words formed from lifeful
Questions about lifeful
- What does lifeful mean?
- Lifeful means bestowing life; enlivening.
- How do you use lifeful in a sentence?
- Cheering the dogs to the chase across the "dew spread lawn," he would "drink deep cooling draughts of lifeful air," returning .with a keen zest to the joys of calm philosophy.
- What part of speech is lifeful?
- Lifeful can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce lifeful?
- Lifeful is pronounced /ˈlaɪf.fʊl/.
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