storyful
storyful adjective: characteristic of a story; storylike.
Adjective
storyful (comparative more storyful, superlative most storyful)
- Characteristic of a story; storylike
- All that sort of thing is very storyful, of course, but it does not concern this account.1923, Paradise of the Pacific, volumes 36-37, page 23
- […] But let us for an instant or two flit back to the storyful dawn of Greenwich Village.1923, Robert Cortes Holliday, In the Neighborhood of Murray Hill, page 94
- Abounding in stories; legendary
- Toledo, the venerable, the storyful, is bowed with the weight of centuries.1921, The Mentor-world Traveler, volume 9, page 29
- The excitements of a pair of knickers, muddied on the storyful pavement, set his mind on murderous trackings.1993, Lukáš Tomin, Ashtrays, page 29
Noun
storyful (plural not attested)
- A complete account or rendering
- Then, Frederic Oren Bartlett has a storyful of very genuine human sentiment in “The Owl Car”; […]1908, Success Magazine and the National Post, volume 11, page 541
- As it is, a few comic moments intrude on a storyful of cliches.1969, The New York Times Film Reviews, page 60
Forms of storyful
| comparative | more storyful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most storyful |
| alternative form | storiful |
Origin of storyful
From story + -ful.
Questions about storyful
- What does storyful mean?
- Storyful means characteristic of a story; storylike.
- What part of speech is storyful?
- Storyful can be an adjective or a noun.
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