sightful

English

Etymology

From sight +‎ -ful

Adjective

sightful (comparative more sightful, superlative most sightful)

  1. (obsolete) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous
    • 1594, Richard Carew, The Examination of Men's Wits:
      for sadness and affliction not only diminisheth and consumeth the moisture of the brain, but also drieth up the bones, with which quality the understanding groweth more sharp and sightful.
  2. Having full sight; clear-sighted; perspicacious and discerning; observant

Quotations

  • Fair lady of hearts, sweet dame of tenderness, tender me thine ears, suffer one, hath sighed and suffered for sake of thee, to sightful sue. — Jeffery Farnol, "The Geste of Duke Jocelyn", 1920
  • The very sightful life of Dionne Quann — Alan Roberts, "The very sightful life of Dionne Quann", 2004
  • While polling trends can be interesting and even sightful, again, the only meaningful poll is on Election Day — NW Progressive Blog, 2008
  • A sightful driver — staff, photo caption, "The News (New Glasgow) ", 2009
  • ... into the house that was so warm and delightful, / and out the window was a sightful. — Ophelia, "A Sightful", 2010

Derived terms

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sightful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, sightful
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