lifeful

English

Alternative forms
  • lyfull (obsolete)

Etymology

From life +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɪffʊl/, /ˈlaɪffl̩/
  • Hyphenation: life‧ful

Adjective

lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)

  1. 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.
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