soulful
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soulful (comparative more soulful, superlative most soulful)
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soulful (plural soulfuls or soulsful)
- Enough to fill one's soul.
- 1958 September, Edwin D. Merry, “Float plane trolling”, in Flying Magazine, volume 63, number 3, page 35:
- At Sebago we hauled in Perch and whole soulfuls of lovely scenery.
- 1961, America Sings, page 122:
- Bodiless soulsful of mud / Gurgled and settled down;
- 2008, Joseph Wechsler, Look, Ma!: Stories with Points to Ponder, page 174:
- He grabbed his chin and went off to brood in a dark corner of Godel's office, then swished into space, hopping from planet to planet like someone walking off a soulful of problems.
- 2014, Beth Moore, Portraits of Devotion, page 304:
- Could anyone use a strong dose of self-discipline? How about a heaping soulful of joy?