lifeful
/ˈlaɪf.fʊl/
Etymology
From life + -ful.
lifeful means bestowing life; enlivening. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
adj
- Bestowing life; enlivening.“Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].”
- Full of vitality; lively and exuberant.“Instead of the olden spirit of enterprise, the city seemed to be the home of inertness—one grey and great temple of lassitude. Except the few money-getting American merchants who sojourned there, the only lifeful creatures to be met with are the myriads of insects that swarm in every house, as I found, to my great discomfort, on my second visit; not remaining sufficiently long on my first, to acqu”
- Characteristic of life and living things.“Pupils are interested most in a variety of literary forms which consist of poetry and literature of a humorous and exciting nature, involving lifeful experiences.”
adv
- In a lifeful manner; full of life.“A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.”
noun
- A quantity that fills a lifetime.“There seems to be an enormous waste of human goodness, while we have at the same time so little of it that we cannot afford, if we only knew our true interests, to lose a single lifeful.”