senseful

English

Etymology

From sense +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsfʊl/

Adjective

senseful (comparative more senseful, superlative most senseful)

1. (now rare) Full of sense; meaningful; significant.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The Ladie, hearkening to his sensefull speach, / Found nothing that he said unmeet nor geason […].

2. (archaic) Full of (common) sense; sensible; intelligent.

Antonyms

• senseless

References

• “senseful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “senseful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sulfenes