songful
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English songful, equivalent to song + -ful.
Adjective
[edit]songful (comparative more songful, superlative most songful)
- (rare) Disposed or able to sing; melodious
- Tending toward, or having the character of, song
- 2007 June 17, The New York Times, “While Lyrical Moments Abound, Tension Sometimes Simmers”, in New York Times[1]:
- But all this attention to Mr. Hamelin’s technical command should not be taken to imply any deficiency in more songful or lyrical moments.
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]songful (plural not attested)
- An amount expressed in a song.
- 1989, Kurt Gänzl, Andrew Lamb, Gänzl's book of the musical theatre, page 67:
- ...just as the gondolieri have the useful thought that they will be able to run their kingdom on exemplary egalitarian lines as a compensation for the unrepublican activity of kingship ('For Every One Who Feels Inclined'), as they set off for Barataria to a songful of good advice from their new little wives ('Do Not Forget You've Married Me') who are left waving goodbye to them from the canal bank.
- 2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record:
- “Trouble” is a songful of words, and Patinkin delivered each and every one of them.
- 2015, Barnaby B. Barratt, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse:
- In the Cuna treatment many interpretations — a songful of them — appear to "come from" the shaman and to be imposed on the patient by this clinician.
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