storyful

English

Alternative forms

• storiful

Etymology 1

From story +‎ -ful.

Adjective

storyful (comparative more storyful, superlative most storyful)

1. Characteristic of a story; storylike
   • 1923, Paradise of the Pacific, volumes 36-37, page 23:

     All that sort of thing is very storyful, of course, but it does not concern this account.

   • 1923, Robert Cortes Holliday, In the Neighborhood of Murray Hill, page 94:

     […] But let us for an instant or two flit back to the storyful dawn of Greenwich Village.

   • 1975, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Devane, Frederick Albert Gutheim, In the Cause of Architecture:

     So it will be seen again, as always, that if he now works with stone in this sense, using the new power which the machine has given him over it, he will gain a spiritual integrity and physical health to compensate him for the losses of the storyful beauties of that period, […]

   • 1977, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series, page 2773:

     The Purple Polly Gimbo and other storiful rhymes.

2. Abounding in stories; legendary
   • 1921, The Mentor-world Traveler, volume 9, page 29:

     Toledo, the venerable, the storyful, is bowed with the weight of centuries.

   • 1993, Lukáš Tomin, Ashtrays, page 29:

     The excitements of a pair of knickers, muddied on the storyful pavement, set his mind on murderous trackings.

Etymology 2

From story +‎ -ful.

Noun

storyful (plural not attested)

1. A complete account or rendering
   • 1908, Success Magazine and the National Post, volume 11, page 541:

     Then, Frederic Oren Bartlett has a storyful of very genuine human sentiment in “The Owl Car”; […]

   • 1969, The New York Times Film Reviews, page 60:

     As it is, a few comic moments intrude on a storyful of cliches.

   • 2000, Border Crossings, volume 19, page 81:

     Each is a storyful of stories.