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senseful

UK/ˈsɛnsfʊl/

senseful adjective: full of sense; meaningful; significant.

Adjective

senseful (comparative more senseful, superlative most senseful)

  1. (archaic) Full of sense; meaningful; significant.
    • The Ladie, hearkening to his sensefull speach, / Found nothing that he said unmeet nor geason […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic) Full of (common) sense; sensible; intelligent.
  3. Capable of precise physical sensation.
    • 'I cannot make head or tail of it,' confessed Miss Barrowford, as the senseful fingers crossed and recrossed the scrawl, now following a vague spidery line, now drawn where no visible mark appeared to lead. 'Is there any meaning, do you think?'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Antonyms of senseful

Forms of senseful

comparativemore senseful
superlativemost senseful

Origin of senseful

From sense + -ful.

Questions about senseful

What does senseful mean?
Senseful means full of sense; meaningful; significant.
What part of speech is senseful?
Senseful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce senseful?
Senseful is pronounced /ˈsɛnsfʊl/ (UK).

Words near senseful in the dictionary

  1. sense strand
  2. sense strands
  3. senseamp
  4. senseamps
  5. sensed
  6. senseful
  7. sensei
  8. senseis
  9. sensel
  10. senseless
  11. senselesse

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