roomful

[ room-fool, room- ]

noun

, plural room·fuls.

1. an amount or number sufficient to fill a room.

roomful

/ ˈrʊm-; ˈruːmfʊl /

noun

1. a number or quantity sufficient to fill a room

   a roomful of furniture

Spelling Note

See -ful.

Word History and Origins

Origin of roomful¹

First recorded in 1700–10; room + -ful

Example Sentences

There’s a host of supporting characters, too – a roomful of writers, for instance, hilariously bridging the generation gap with their common love of comedy even as they clash over cultural values.

From Washington Blade

Tyler George stood up in the 132-year-old building he was raised in, surrounded by what is typically one of the most dangerous snowpacks in America, and stared at a roomful of backcountry skiers who were there to learn how not to die in an avalanche.

From Outside Online

Prosecutors unveiled their line of attack in Holmes’s criminal fraud trial, which began Wednesday in front of a jury and a roomful of reporters, curious members of the public and a handful of her supporters and family members.

From Washington Post

Waiting there was a team of scientists with a roomful of lab equipment to measure the precise physiological toll of their exertions.

From Outside Online

He did not want to tell a roomful of hard partisans that their ideology is unworkable.

From The Daily Beast

A roomful of women in that room encouraged us to keep going.

From The Daily Beast

Getting caught on video doing it in a roomful of rich donors is downright sloppy.

From The Daily Beast

A man in a crowded Colorado movie theater randomly executing a roomful of total strangers including women and children?

From The Daily Beast

Ramin Setoodeh went and found a roomful of adults in Jurassic Park costumes.

From The Daily Beast

A reception—a roomful of people shouting at each other three inches away—is comical enough.

From Project Gutenberg

She was a woman who could have commanded a whole roomful with it, and no one would have wanted a word from her.

From Project Gutenberg

He forgot his anger, forgot Conal, forgot the roomful of dancers stampeding merrily, forgot Pat Glynn and his music.

From Project Gutenberg

It is on this plan that Edison has now constructed a phonograph which delivers its reproduction to a roomful of people.

From Project Gutenberg

Paul swore softly to himself, for he had no wish to share his good fortune with a roomful of people.

From Project Gutenberg