lookful

adj, noun — 3 senses

lookful

adj

Etymology From look + -ful.

1

Rare Looking carefully; observant.

  • 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:
  • 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:
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:

lookful

noun

Etymology From look + -ful.

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:

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