senseful

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UK/ˈsɛnsfʊl/

adjective

Full of sense; meaningful; significant.

Opposite
Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivesenseful (comparative more senseful, superlative most senseful)

comparative more senseful · superlative most senseful

  1. archaicFull of sense; meaningful; significant.

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

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. Capable of precise physical sensation.

    'I cannot make head or tail of it,' confessed Miss Barrowford, as the senseful fingers crossed and recrossed the scrawl, now following a vague spidery line, now drawn where no visible mark appeared to lead. 'Is there any meaning, do you think?'

    1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  2. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  3. Latinsentiō
  4. Latinsēnsu
  5. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  6. Frankish*sinn
  7. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  8. Old Frenchsens
  9. Middle Englishsense
  10. Englishsense
  11. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
  13. Proto-Germanic*fullaz
  14. Englishsenseful

From sense + -ful.

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APA

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Chicago

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