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English
Etymology 1
From look + -ful.
Adjective
lookful (comparative more lookful, superlative most lookful)
- (rare) Looking carefully; observant.
1823, Aeschylus, The Prometheus Chained, page 52:Then immediately were my shape and my mental-faculties distored, and horn-furnished, as ye see, I with frantic speed, by the sharp-mouthed gadfly stung, rushed to the thirst-assuaging stream of Cenchréa, and the fountain of Lérna—whilst the Earth-born herdsman Argos, zealous in anger, followed me, lookful on my steps with many eyes.
2009, Brenda Hillman, Practical Water, page 98:The lookful page is watching with its seeds of extra time; as a mother sowed the cosmos, so the page — as a shadow sews a pocket.
- Attractive; nice to look at.
1928, The Judge - Volume 95, page 72:His girls on this occasion look no more lookful than those in the average musical show.
Etymology 2
From look + -ful.
Noun
lookful (plural lookfuls or looksful)
- As much as can be seen in one look.
1983, T. H. White, The Maharajah and Other Stories, page 134:Quickly on the trapdoor, so that his despairing blindfold, nuzzling the new room avidly for a last lookful of life, might not through linen see one detail.