Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Able to sway; swaying; powerful.

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

  • adjective rare Able to sway.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to sway; swaying.
  • adjective Full of sway or influence; influential; powerful.

Etymologies

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From sway +‎ -ful.

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Examples

  • The swayful pathways of the dragonfly spider stay still in reedery.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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