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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
zestful

1797, from zest + -ful. Related: Zestfully; zestfulness.

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zestful

a. having a spirited love of life; ebullient

WordNet
zestful

adj. marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: yeasty, zesty, barmy]

Usage examples of "zestful".

We could not indeed bring them further than the threshold of true humanity, but within their natural limits they might be made generous, free-minded, zestful, unafraid, Then, if we could but return them to your planet in the first bloom of maturity, how they would remake your world!

The colt had grown into a noble mare, the anxious young suburban miss into a mature and zestful woman, whose mind was surprisingly untrammelled.

I was not present at his death, but I feel sure that, when his end came, his last breath spent itself in zestful laughter.

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.

In a normal year we would be walking into the zestful bounty of a southern mountain spring, through a radiant, productive, newborn world alive with the zip of insects and the fussy twitter of birds--a world bursting with fresh wholesome air and that rich, velvety, lung-filling smell of chlorophyll you get when you push through low, leafy branches.

In a normal year we would be walking into the zestful bounty of a southern mountain spring, through a radiant, productive, newborn world alive with the zip of insects and the fussy twitter of birds—.