suggestful en · ADJ
Etymology
From suggest + -ful.
Meanings
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(rare) Synonym of suggestive.
The historical associations which cluster around this gay, eventful and scenic metropolis, are full of interest, and suggestful of reflection.
1851 August 13, “Editorial Correspondence”, in The New-York Evangelist, published 1851, page 1, column 1:The book has been mocked and criticised, especially by intellectuals, but offers to the writer a redefining and poetically suggestful reading of the way men are in the contemporary world.
2011, Adrian May, Myth and Creative Writing: The Self-Renewing Song, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 76:He smiled at her, slow and suggestful, like he might be thinking about how nice it would be to fondle her hair.
1995, Joe R[ichard] Lansdale, The Two-Bear Mambo, New York, N.Y.: The Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 115:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most suggestful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more suggestful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |