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hapful en · ADJ

Etymology

From hap + -ful.

Meanings

1. (poetic, rare) Full of happenings; eventful.
   • Along about the blanching of the east, / When sleep is weirdest and a moment's flight, / Remembered coextensive with the night, / May teem with hapful years; / as light in smoke / Upon the jumble of Hugh's dreaming broke / A buzz of human voices. 2002, John G. Neihardt, A Cycle of the West:
2. (poetic, rare) Lucky; happy.
   • “Hapless? I'd like to think I'm rather hapful.” 2018, Tiffany Schmidt, Bookish Boyfriends: A Date with Darcy:

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