searchful

English

Etymology

From search +‎ -ful.

Adjective

searchful (comparative more searchful, superlative most searchful)

1. (now rare) Characterized by searching; active in searching; inquisitive.
   • 1729, Richard Savage, The Wanderer: A Poem. In Five Canto’s, London: Printed for J. Walthoe, canto I, page 23:

     Each Genius, Youth conceals, or Time diſplays, / I know; each Work, ſome Seraph here conveys, / Retirement thus preſents my ſearchful Thought, What Heav’n inſpir’d, and what the Muſe has taught; […]

Further reading

• “searchful”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “searchful, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.