Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a voice, especially a loud voice; resounding.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a voice; vocal; sounding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

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  • adjective vocal; sounding

Etymologies

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voice +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • It would be beyond the scope of this essay to deal with the complexities of both Richard Rufus 'treatment of this question as well as Roger Bacon's voiceful criticisms of the notion of the

    Richard the Sophister Streveler, Paul 2005

  • Still the sail swells to the voiceful breeze; the high mast bends with hideous creak, and every separate rib in the huge fabric quivers.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • Pete looked forward with white-hot impatience to the day of his trip to the trading-station; twelve hours of relief, it would mean, from the worst pressure of his torment -- twelve hours of merciful solitude in the old, voiceful friendliness of his forest trail.

    Snow-Blind Katharine Newlin Burt 1929

  • There is no equivalent for the word in the Chinook tongue, but the gestures of his voiceful hands so expressed the quality of something between magnetism and charm that I have selected this word

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • There is no equivalent for the word in the Chinook tongue, but the gestures of his voiceful hands so expressed the quality of something between magnetism and charm that I have selected this word "lure" as best fitting what he wished to convey.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms -- if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.

    Anne of the Island 1908

  • Jopas, but of who could tell how many singing hearts, lyric with joy and love and still voiceful here in these strange halls?

    Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

  • I sit here up in the hills and the sea and the air are voiceful, a seething and moaning of the wind and weather, cruel to listen to.

    Pan Knut Hamsun 1905

  • A mile beyond, back of a great cloud of dust, He found a drove of cattle, and back of these, hot and voiceful, came the good Bishop

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • One's sympathies, however, are almost immediately enlisted in the interest and fortunes of a young and voiceful pig, which, poised in the blue, unwillingly experiences for the moment the fate of the coffin of the

    A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

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