Adjective: vimful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more vimful |
| Superlative | most vimful |
Sample Sentences
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The WCBS (N. Y.) broadcastress, with three other vimful and vigorous grannies, are here encased in a series of Anglo-French-Italo travelogs done with diverting prose and an eye on the anecdotal snapper. [1954 March 10, “Literati”, in Variety, volume 194, number 1, New York, N.Y., page 69, column 1:]
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You are, however, constantly aware that you’re driving a Sports Car. Like Prospero’s isle, the C-5 is full of noises. Some have been left in on purpose; it’s supposed to sound vimful and virile. [1997 July 31, Ed Hailwood, “The Big Red One”, in The Financial Post, Toronto, Ont., page 53, column 2:]
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Their album, Bengali Bantam Youth Experience, even has musical merit in its vimful conjoining of beats, guitar and Bollywood strings. [1999 September 4, Caroline Sullivan, “Choque full of bull”, in The Guardian, London, page 19, column 4:]
Adjectives inflected like vimful
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From vim + -ful.