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memoryful

memoryful adjective: equipped with a memory; capable of retaining information about what has happened before.

Adjective

memoryful (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with a memory; capable of retaining information about what has happened before.
    • The Guest Book has a horde of other memoryful signatures.1909 May, The Circle and Success Magazine, page 281
    • Like a great many other Nova Scotia towns that make provision for the tourist, Annapolis, the rare, the old, the memoryful, has pleasant stopping places of homely atmosphere.1920, The Mentor, volume 8, page 191

Noun

memoryful (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare) An amount that is held by the memory.
    • […] the company of a group of young athletes: and this athletic principle included even the sprinkling of oddities (one of them a lame young hunchback with features of aquiline delicacy, who was cherished for a memoryful of sporting statistics) […]1964, Anthologies of New Zealand writing, volume 2, page 129
    • Any visitor will soon have a memoryful of such images and experiences.1965, Eugene Fodor, Fodor's Guide to India, page 97

Antonyms of memoryful

Origin of memoryful

From memory + -ful.

Questions about memoryful

What does memoryful mean?
Memoryful means equipped with a memory; capable of retaining information about what has happened before.
What part of speech is memoryful?
Memoryful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near memoryful in the dictionary

  1. memory-wiped
  2. memory-wipes
  3. memory-wiping
  4. memorycide
  5. memorycides
  6. memoryful
  7. memorying
  8. memoryless
  9. memorylessness
  10. memos
  11. memosphere

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