Meaning

Full of love; loving..

Definitions by Sense

1. Full of love; loving.
2. (nonstandard) Evoking a feeling of love; lovely.
3. Seeking or desiring love.

Example Sentences

For now she was so close to him and knelt, / And rose, him gracing with a loveful smile, / Pure and serene, more with her eyes than lips.

It is a loveful dominion at which he must arrive. To this he never can attain, so long as his lower appetites and natures are interested in giving a lower value to the animals. He who goes to the butcher to cheapen lamb-chops for his gratification, is not in the best possible condition for declaring God's highest purpose in the creation of lambs.

And a woman, although she may long in her heart for some loveful nook where he will be all her own, must be careful never to let the utterance of such a wish be suffered to interfere with his interests and ambition.

[…] The sweetest kiss, the tenderest embrace, / The smile most winning, and the tone most loveful, […]

[…] For as he dies he shares / A loveful message: […]

White and beautiful, gentle and loveful though she be, softly though she down the eyrie, and neatly though she arrange it for his reception, she is still but a dove;

I found Linnaea spreading and blooming in glorious exuberance far and wide over mossy ground, beneath spruce and pine,—the wildest and the gentlest, the most beautiful and most loveful of all the inhabitants of the wilderness.

He must have been enjoying our time together because he looked up at me and said, "Mommy, you're loveful and beautiful and heartful."

Word Forms

• more loveful
• most loveful

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When Should You Use Loveful?

Use loveful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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