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English
Etymology
From fire + -ful.
Adjective
fireful (comparative more fireful, superlative most fireful)
- (less common, nonstandard) Fiery
1808 May, T. Gent, “Poetic Sketches”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 78, page 428:Then ſhall his fireful ſpirit melt, and
The mild enjoyments it can never know; […]
1901, Eugene Field, “We Are Seven”, in A Little Book of Tribune Verse, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 224:I met a doctor rolling up
His wild and fireful eyes,
His lofty brow was clouded o'er
With an impression wise;
1997 [1929], Cherry Wilson, “The Wallflower” (chapter XV), in Thunder Brakes, Firecrest Publishing Limited, page 164:Horrible, the fateful figure, steadying itself against Old Winter, who was having the first real look in. Hatless it was, and coatless. With shirt all but torn away, and horribly smeared. With hollow eyes burning the dead face up. Fireful eyes, that scorched all they touched. That touched all, in a slow, laborious search of the throng.
2008, Christine Soltis, Pathways to the Maze, , page 141:I see the misery one can come to be- this is beyond the orangered clichéd version of purgatory- straight into the chambers of death- harsh waters, harsh airs- fireful stares- trouble-trash-dirt and filth.