Meanings
comparative more senseful · superlative most senseful
- 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 - archaicFull of (common) sense; sensible; intelligent.
- 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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sent-
- Proto-Italic*sentiō
- Latinsentiō
- Latinsēnsu
- Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
- Frankish*sinn
- Vulgar Latin*sennus
- Old Frenchsens
- Middle Englishsense
- Englishsense
- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
- Proto-Germanic*fullaz
- Englishsenseful
Cite this entry
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