different between lifeful vs likeful

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 likful, licvol, equivalent to like +? -ful.

Adjective

likeful (comparative more likeful, superlative most likeful)

1. (rare, archaic, dialectal or humorous) Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
   • 2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain:

     "This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful.

Anagrams

• flu-like, flulike