Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Melodious; tuneful.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disposed or able to sing; melodious.

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

  • adjective Disposed to sing; full of song.

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

  • adjective Tending toward, or having the character of, song

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective richly melodious

Etymologies

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song +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • CHRISTGAU: If you wonder about the words on this songful album, well, despite an earlier line that goes I try to make myself seem vague, I'd argue that lyrics like I try the best I can and these things make you human, which you just heard if you were trying, reach out to those they address and are never cynical or apathetic.

    No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between' 2010

  • CHRISTGAU: If you wonder about the words on this songful album, well, despite an earlier line that goes I try to make myself seem vague, I'd argue that lyrics like I try the best I can and these things make you human, which you just heard if you were trying, reach out to those they address and are never cynical or apathetic.

    No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between' 2010

  • On the whole the work was more interesting than beautiful, more of a sonic landscape than a songful tone poem.

    Brad Hill: Review: London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall Brad Hill 2011

  • CHRISTGAU: If you wonder about the words on this songful album, well, despite an earlier line that goes I try to make myself seem vague, I'd argue that lyrics like I try the best I can and these things make you human, which you just heard if you were trying, reach out to those they address and are never cynical or apathetic.

    No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between' 2010

  • CHRISTGAU: If you wonder about the words on this songful album, well, despite an earlier line that goes I try to make myself seem vague, I'd argue that lyrics like I try the best I can and these things make you human, which you just heard if you were trying, reach out to those they address and are never cynical or apathetic.

    No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between' 2010

  • On the whole the work was more interesting than beautiful, more of a sonic landscape than a songful tone poem.

    Brad Hill: Review: London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall Brad Hill 2011

  • On the whole the work was more interesting than beautiful, more of a sonic landscape than a songful tone poem.

    Brad Hill: Review: London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall Brad Hill 2011

  • On the whole the work was more interesting than beautiful, more of a sonic landscape than a songful tone poem.

    Brad Hill: Review: London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall Brad Hill 2011

  • CHRISTGAU: If you wonder about the words on this songful album, well, despite an earlier line that goes I try to make myself seem vague, I'd argue that lyrics like I try the best I can and these things make you human, which you just heard if you were trying, reach out to those they address and are never cynical or apathetic.

    No Age Shrieks And Soothes On 'Everything In Between' 2010

  • So she has like a mainline right into that lyric part, that songful part of Schubert part and also the bittersweet part also.

    Sacred Songs And DJs: New Classical CDs 2010

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