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lookful en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From look + -ful.

Meanings

1. (rare) Looking 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most lookful	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more lookful	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

lookful en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From look + -ful.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
looksful	Number=Plur		lexicographic
lookfuls	Number=Plur		lexicographic