sweetful
sweetful adjective: characterised by sweetness; delightful; charming.
Adjective
sweetful (comparative more sweetful, superlative most sweetful)
- Characterised by sweetness; delightful; charming.
- Vnder a Popler Themis did repoſe her, / And from a brier a ſweetfull branch did plucke:[…]1589, Thomas Lodge, “The most pithie and pleasant Historie of Glaucus and Silla”, in Scillaes Metamorphosis: Enterlaced with the Vnfortunate Loue of Glaucus, VVhereunto Is Annexed the Delectable...
- No Friend attending, ſave the warbling Bird / Of Night, which kindly tun’d her melancholy Song / With ſweetful Mone, in Pity to her Fate.1739, [Anthony Brown], The Fatal Retirement. A Tragedy. As It Was Intended to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s Servants. To the Impartial Reader., London: […] T....
Examples of sweetful in a sentence
- I begin to read two or three chapters for a time; but the sweetful words draw me to read about eight or nine chapters.1821 January 9, Ayyavoo’s letter, quotee, “Appendix XII. Extracts from the Journals and Reports of John Devasagayam, Relative to the School...
- Of sweetful tones would you deprive the lute?[…]The seasons meet her on this sweetful land, / Persuasion crowns her on this Paphian strand;1844, Agnostos [pseudonym; Sydney Whiting], edited by Douglas [William] Jerrold, The Illuminated Magazine, volume III (May to October)...
- In his own language, he wasted the “sweetful fragrance of his voice upon the desert air.”1856 January 10, “Congress”, in Daily American Organ, volume II, number 49 (whole 366), Washington, D.C.:
- Her sweetful voice that laughed so clear, / And her own nameless, winsome way, / The simple dress she loved to wear, / Eyes that but looked, and I drawn near— / Now closed in Night for aye!1856, Hope Witgold, “Lost, Strayed, Stolen,—Dead!”, in The Train: A First-class Magazine, volume III, London: S. O. Beeton, […], page 110:
Forms of sweetful
| comparative | more sweetful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sweetful |
Origin of sweetful
From sweet + -ful.
Words formed from sweetful
Questions about sweetful
- What does sweetful mean?
- Sweetful means characterised by sweetness; delightful; charming.
- How do you use sweetful in a sentence?
- I begin to read two or three chapters for a time; but the sweetful words draw me to read about eight or nine chapters.
- What part of speech is sweetful?
- Sweetful is an adjective.
Words near sweetful in the dictionary
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