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soulful

/ˈsoʊlfəl/

soulful adjective: full of emotion and vigor.

Adjective

soulful (comparative more soulful, superlative most soulful)

  1. Full of emotion and vigor.
    • In the United States, Mr. Besson is primarily known as a superior director of stylish, mayhemic, even soulful films like “La Femme Nikita” and “Léon: The Professional.”2007 May 20, Jaime Wolf, “Le Cinéma du Blockbuster”, in The New York Times
  2. Full of soul.

Noun

soulful (plural soulfuls or soulsful)

  1. An amount enough to fill one's soul.
    • At Sebago we hauled in Perch and whole soulfuls of lovely scenery.1958 September, Edwin D. Merry, “Float plane trolling”, in Flying Magazine, volume 63, number 3, page 35
    • Bodiless soulsful of mud / Gurgled and settled down;1961, America Sings, page 122

soulful meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

soulful in Bengali

আবেগপূর্ণ, ভাবগম্ভীর

soulful in Malayalam

profound, emotional, deep
ചെെതന്യവത്തായ, വെെകാരിക, ഭാവാത്മകമായ, അഗാധ, ഗാഢമായ, തീവ്രമായ

soulful in Kannada

ಭಾವಪೂರ್ಣ, ಭಾವನಾತ್ಮಕ, ಭಾವೋದಾತ್ತತೆಯ

Examples of soulful in a sentence

  • Mork played with soulful intensity (and impeccable intonation), and the interplay between him and Mr.
  • But more telling was the chemical combustion between McCann's soulful, feelgood keyboard work and Harris's wry funkification.
  • It reminded me of that classic Full Cycle vibe of jazzy soulful sounds blending with dub bass and fx.

All 18 example sentences with soulful

Forms of soulful

Adjective
comparativemore soulful
superlativemost soulful
Noun
pluralsoulfuls
pluralsoulsful

Origin of soulful

From soul + -ful (adjective suffix).

From soul + -ful (noun suffix).

Words formed from soulful

Words that rhyme with soulful

Questions about soulful

What does soulful mean?
Soulful means full of emotion and vigor.
What is soulful in Bengali?
Soulful in Bengali is আবেগপূর্ণ, ভাবগম্ভীর. See Soulful meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is soulful?
Soulful can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce soulful?
Soulful is pronounced /ˈsoʊlfəl/.

Words near soulful in the dictionary

  1. souler
  2. soulers
  3. soules
  4. souless
  5. Souletin
  6. soulful
  7. soulfully
  8. soulfulness
  9. soulfulnesses
  10. soulfuls
  11. soulical

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: soulful (page history and authors); soulful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); soulful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); soulful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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