Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of soul, emotion, or feeling; expressive of sentiment or emotion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
emotion andvigor - adjective Full of
soul .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of or expressing deep emotion
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Examples
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Lute pleaded in soulful tones while she studied her chances for escape.
CHAPTER III 2010
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After a while, tired of agreeing, he starts to bring in soulful and long-breathing notes more typical of the cello, until the flute is compelled to take up such notes as well.
Magna Carter (4): Identity Politics Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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After a while, tired of agreeing, he starts to bring in soulful and long-breathing notes more typical of the cello, until the flute is compelled to take up such notes as well.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Lute pleaded in soulful tones while she studied her chances for escape.
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"I always thought I was a colorblind reader," she writes, "until I read this novel, and that ultimate cliche of black life that is inscribed in the word soulful took on a new weight and sense for me."
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"I always thought I was a colorblind reader," she writes, "until I read this novel, and that ultimate cliche of black life that is inscribed in the word soulful took on a new weight and sense for me."
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With a voice some called soulful and others called strangled, 17-year-old Diana Vickers was last seen sobbing on stage at the X
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My German's pretty rotten, but I quite liked hearing Tom Waits standards like "Romeo Verliert Bluat" (Romeo is Bleeding) and "Es Is Vorbei" (Ruby's Eyes) sung in soulful Austrian German.
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SIMON: Her voice and her way with a song has been called soulful, emotive and - can we say this over breakfast - sexy.
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In a review of 'Love IS,' Entertainment Weekly called his soulful rendition of "More Than Words" (Extreme's country-rock hit) "totally gorgeous," adding: "the Ray Charles of 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' would be proud."
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