feastful

English

Etymology 1

From feast +‎ -ful.

Adjective

feastful (comparative more feastful, superlative most feastful)

1. Festive; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

   feastful rites

Derived terms

• feastfully

Etymology 2

feast +‎ -ful

Noun

feastful (plural feastfuls)

1. Enough for a feast.
   • 1977, Fernando C. Trecero, Grandfather's Incredible Tales, page 29:

     Now they were on their way home, one bitter for not being able to bag a sure feastful of pork, the other holding his side in apparent pain.

2. A wide selection.
   • 1986, Alan Moore, Opia, page 19:

     The room is a feastful of firework light, tinsel weeds.

   • 1998, Peter Greenaway, 100 Allegories to Represent the World, page 237:

     All worthwhile games have a feastful of elaborations.

Anagrams

• sufflate