different between lifeful vs lifeless

English

Alternative forms

• lyfull (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From life +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?ff?l/, /?la?ffl?/
• Hyphenation: life?ful

Adjective

lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)

1. Bestowing life; enlivening. [from 13th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:

     Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].
2. Full of vitality; lively and exuberant.
3. Characteristic of life and living things.

Adverb

lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)

1. In a lifeful manner; full of life.
   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, I:

     A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.

Etymology 2

life +? -ful.

Noun

lifeful (plural lifefuls)

1. A quantity that fills a lifetime.

English

Etymology

From Middle English lyfles, lifles, from Old English l?fl?as (“lifeless”), equivalent to life +? -less. Cognate with West Frisian libbensleas (“lifeless”), Dutch levenloos (“lifeless”), German leblos (“lifeless”), Danish livløs (“lifeless”), Swedish livlös (“lifeless”), Icelandic líflaus (“lifeless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?fl?s/
• Hyphenation: life?less

Adjective

lifeless (comparative more lifeless, superlative most lifeless)

1. inanimate; having no life
2. dead; having lost life
3. uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
4. dull or lacking vitality

Derived terms

• lifelessly
• lifelessness

Translations

Anagrams

• fileless, self-lies