Hapful

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of happenings; eventful. poetic, rare

    "Along about the blanching of the east, / When sleep is weirdest and a moment's flight, / Remembered coextensive with the night, / May teem with hapful years; / as light in smoke / Upon the jumble of Hugh's dreaming broke / A buzz of human voices."

  2. 2
    Lucky; happy. poetic, rare

    "“Hapless? I'd like to think I'm rather hapful.”"

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"Along about the blanching of the east, / When sleep is weirdest and a moment's flight, / Remembered coextensive with the night, / May teem with hapful years; / as light in smoke / Upon the jumble of Hugh's dreaming broke / A buzz of human voices."

Etymology

From hap + -ful.

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