lifeful
English
Alternative forms
- lyfull (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɪffʊl/, /ˈlaɪffl̩/
- Hyphenation: life‧ful
Adjective
lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)
- Full of vitality; bestowing life. [from 13th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
- Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion, I:
- A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
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