What does formful mean?
Formful means (obsolete) creative; imaginative;.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(obsolete) creative; imaginative;.
As fleets the vision o'er the formful brain
Fearless, with face oblique, her formful hand Flies o'er the ivory Plain, with stretch'd command; Plunges, with bold neglect, amidst the keys, And sweeps the sounding range with magic east.
Creation is at root a process of rendering formful and substantial ("filled") what was originally amorphous and empty, of establishing domains and their appropriate populace.
How one can say that - God is only formful.
Out of the formless the formful has come into being.
Potters are craftworkers; that is, they use their hands to make objects for everyday use that need to have form and design as an integral part of their being. To be able to do this potters need a certain ability, not only of the hands (as most might think) but especially a capacity to see what is formful, beautiful, characteristic and so on.
We are all often indignant, and sometimes witty about our indignations, but we do not thereby turn satirists. For it is not only the anger and the involvement, the idealism and the wit, but the manipulations of them, how they are turned to formful, organic use that constitute the satric art.
If we must guard against the notions of form, coherence or justifying too narrowly, in terms of what is generally praised as “harmony” and “balance,” we must equally avoid interpreting them so broadly that everything whatever is “formful” simply because it has parts in relation to one another.
Use formful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Formful means (obsolete) creative; imaginative;.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
As fleets the vision o'er the formful brain
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