Home › Words › G › glancefulglancefulglanceful means that which is perceived at a glance.EtymologyFrom glance + -ful.nounThat which is perceived at a glance.That which is communicated by a glance.adjCharacterized by glances.e.g.“Transcends in organs apt this puny fly, Her fine-strung feelers, and her glanceful eye, Set with ten thousand lenses."” — 1827, Edward Bevan, The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management, page 313:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).