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suggestful en · ADJ

Etymology

From suggest + -ful.

Meanings

  1. (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

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most suggestful Degree=Sup lexicographic
more suggestful Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

suggestfully

Synonyms

suggestive