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sparkful

sparkful adjective: lively, vivacious; smart.

Adjective

sparkful (comparative more sparkful, superlative most sparkful)

  1. (uncommon) Lively, vivacious; smart.
    • Hitherto will our sparkefull Youth laugh at their great grandfathers English, who had more care to do well, than to speake minion-like, and left more glory to vs by their exploiting of great actes, than we shall do by our sonnetting.1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 18
    • It described the first ceiling I mentioned as “Apollo drawn by four sparkful steeds in a shining cart, the egregious Domenichino’s work.”1827 February 5, Walter Augustus Shirley, “[Letter to his parents]”, in Thomas Hill, editor, Letters and Memoir of the Late Walter Augustus Shirley […], published 1849, page 95

Forms of sparkful

comparativemore sparkful
superlativemost sparkful

Origin of sparkful

From spark + -ful.

Questions about sparkful

What does sparkful mean?
Sparkful means lively, vivacious; smart.
What part of speech is sparkful?
Sparkful is an adjective.

Words near sparkful in the dictionary

  1. sparkes
  2. Sparkeses
  3. sparkest
  4. sparketh
  5. Sparkford
  6. sparkful
  7. sparkgap
  8. sparkgaps
  9. Sparkhill
  10. Sparkian
  11. sparkie

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