Meaning

All that occurs or is done during a single night..

Definitions by Sense

1. All that occurs or is done during a single night.
2. As much as is produced or consumed throughout an entire night.
3. Pertaining to the night; occurring at night, found at night, resulting from the night, night-like, etc.

Example Sentences

Interpreting dreams was interpreting dreamers, finding what function was performed for the dreamer by specific dreams, or by nightsful of dreams, or by a dream series.

No deer, of course. But summer nightfuls of a raccoon banging the lid of Mr. Gallagher's in-ground garbage can, ker-blam ker-blam ker- blam.

We're each and every one of them when our local cinema, The Hall, disgorges its nightful of cowboys and we go roaring down Shandon Street, belting the hell out of our backsides to get Trigger ahead of the Red Indians.

When the evening comes, God's face then is a nightful of stars that lay to rest on the nearby tadpole water.

And now, in March, when back home in Iowa thoughts of plowing were making folks restless, and spring was only a matter of a morning's rain or shine (either would bring it), snow had fallen again—a whole nightful of it.

Some people are affected more by two glasses of beer than others by a nightful of Scotch and sodas.

Nothing was going to help his appearance by now. With his borrowed orderly's jacket, his work boots, grease-stained jeans and a nightful of whiskers, he could guess what he looked like in her eyes.

Fatigue, and want of strength from recent sickness: The ague's touch, that now recurs beneath These nightful dews.

Word Forms

• nightfuls
• nightsful
• more nightful
• most nightful

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When Should You Use Nightful?

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

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