lightful
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: lītʹfo͝ol
- Hyphenation: light‧ful
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English lightful, lihtful (“luminous, providing enlightenment”), from light, liht (noun) + -ful (“full of (a feeling)”, suffix forming adjectives).[1] See more at light (noun).
Adjective edit
lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)
Derived terms edit
- lightfulness (noun)
Etymology 2 edit
From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) + -ful (“full of, having”, adjective).
Adjective edit
lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)
- Light; cheerful.
Derived terms edit
- lightfulness (noun)
References edit
- ^ “lightful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 21 November 2019.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “lightful”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.