lifeful

[ lahyf-fuhl ]

adjective

1. full of life; lively; animated.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lifeful¹

First recorded in 1175–1225, lifeful is from the Middle English word lifful. See life, -ful

Example Sentences

Thou knowest naught of dead-cold forms, Knowest naught of littleness, Lifeful Truth thy being warms, Majesty and earnestness.

From Project Gutenberg

A metropolitan murmur, lifeful, warm,

From Project Gutenberg

He is tall and lean, has on a blue frock coat with gilt buttons, English boots, takes snuff out of a black lacquered snuff-box, speaks German fluently, and is consequently a German, in spite of his boots and the Italian sausages; a glorious, lifeful German character for my next novel!

From Project Gutenberg

For darkness comes with night, his paramour, And cast their shadows over all the land; And in their stilly presence creeps repose, And folds his arms around the lifeful sounds, Till all is hushed of nature into rest, And all the tuneful throng is mutely still, And comes no sound of labor from the hill.

From Project Gutenberg

Hereat the youth Look'd up: a conflicting of shame and ruth Was in his plaited brow: yet, his eyelids Widened a little, as when Zephyr bids A little breeze to creep between the fans Of careless butterflies: amid his pains He seem'd to taste a drop of manna-dew, Full palatable; and a colour grew Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.

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