lookful

comparative more lookful · superlative most lookful

1. rareLooking carefully; observant.

   The lookful page is watching with its seeds of extra time; as a mother sowed the cosmos, so the page — as a shadow sews a pocket.

   2009, Brenda Hillman, Practical Water, page 98

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   Then immediately were my shape and my mental-faculties distored, and horn-furnished, as ye see, I with frantic speed, by the sharp-mouthed gadfly stung, rushed to the thirst-assuaging stream of Cenchréa, and the fountain of Lérna—whilst the Earth-born herdsman Argos, zealous in anger, followed me, lookful on my steps with many eyes.

   1823, Aeschylus, The Prometheus Chained, page 52

2. Attractive; nice to look at.

   His girls on this occasion look no more lookful than those in the average musical show.

   1928, The Judge - Volume 95, page 72

plural lookfuls · plural looksful

1. As much as can be seen in one look.

   Quickly on the trapdoor, so that his despairing blindfold, nuzzling the new room avidly for a last lookful of life, might not through linen see one detail.

   1983, T. H. White, The Maharajah and Other Stories, page 134