Home › Words › C › cartfulcartfulcartful means as much as a cart will hold.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, cartful ranks #3,411 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Middle English cartful, cartfull, cartefull, equivalent to cart + -ful.nounAs much as a cart will hold.e.g.“My first trip was a shopping run to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where the Acadia swallowed a cartful of groceries without even folding the third-row seat.” — 2007 March 25, Lawrence Ulrich, “G.M. Makes a Grand Entrance, at Last, to the Crossover Ball”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cartonful 83% match — As much as a carton will hold. vs cartful →carful 79% match — As much as a car will hold. (Usually with reference to an automobile; sometimes with reference to a railroad car, especially in 19th-century texts.) vs cartful →caseful 76% match — As much as a case will hold. vs cartful →truckful 76% match — As much as a truck can hold. vs cartful →cartload 75% match — The amount that a cart can carry. vs cartful →trolleyful 75% match — As much as a trolley will hold. vs cartful →chestful 74% match — As much as a chest will hold vs cartful →canful 74% match — As much as a can will hold. vs cartful →