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sceneful

sceneful adjective: having much scenery; scenic.

Adjective

sceneful (comparative more sceneful, superlative most sceneful)

  1. Having much scenery; scenic.
    • Clad in the verdure of unnumber'd isles, Where scepter'd William's massy bulwarks stand, The guard and glory of the sceneful land.1842, William McCarty, Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects: Patriotic
    • He never came to view the sceneful world with the minuteness and understanding of a later poet who could describe The Man who slices lemons into drink, The coffee-roaster's brasier, and the boys That volunteer to help him turn its winch.1937, Edward Gay Ainsworth, Poor Collins: his life, his art, and his influence, page 83

Noun

sceneful (plural scenefuls or scenesful)

  1. A quantity contained in a scene.
    • Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond...1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178
    • She cannot resist a sceneful of scathing remarks for one final humiliation of her husband before she leaves.1943, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews - Volume 4, page 308

Forms of sceneful

Adjective
comparativemore sceneful
superlativemost sceneful
Noun
pluralscenefuls
pluralscenesful

Origin of sceneful

From scene + -ful.

Questions about sceneful

What does sceneful mean?
Sceneful means having much scenery; scenic.
What part of speech is sceneful?
Sceneful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near sceneful in the dictionary

  1. scene-stealers
  2. scene-stealing
  3. scenecore
  4. scenecraft
  5. scened
  6. sceneful
  7. scenefuls
  8. scenegraph
  9. scenegraphs
  10. sceneless
  11. scenelessness

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