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lightful

Syllables: light·ful

lightful adjective: full of light; bright.

Adjective (1)

lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)

  1. (poetic) Full of light; bright.
    • formlesse eyes doe faile / To see the sun, though brought to lightfull land.a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm LVIII”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 101
    • His lightfull Lamp reflected on my head, / Whereby I walkt through Darkneſsa. 1619 (date written), [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “A Divine and True Tragi-comedy; Iob Triumphant in His Triall: Or The Historie of His Heroicall Patience. In a Measured Metaphrase. The...

Adjective (2)

lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)

  1. Light; cheerful.

Forms of lightful

comparativemore lightful
superlativemost lightful

Origin of lightful

From Middle English lightful, lihtful (“luminous, providing enlightenment”), from light, liht (noun) + -ful (“full of (a feeling)”, suffix forming adjectives). See more at light (noun).

From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) + -ful (“full of, having”, adjective).

Words formed from lightful

Questions about lightful

What does lightful mean?
Lightful means full of light; bright.
What part of speech is lightful?
Lightful is an adjective.

Words near lightful in the dictionary

  1. lightfooted
  2. lightfootedly
  3. Lightfoots
  4. lightfront
  5. lightfronts
  6. lightful
  7. lightfulness
  8. lightguide
  9. lightguides
  10. lightgun
  11. lightguns

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