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Expressing (supposedly) deep feeling
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soulful
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Word definitions for soulful in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Full of emotion and vigor 2 Full of soul.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Soulful may refer to: the quality of "having soul", often used in the context of a performer or a work in soul music Soulful (Dionne Warwick album) , 1969 album by Dionne Warwick Soulful (Ruben Studdard album) , 2003 album by Ruben Studdard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES soulful eyes (= showing strong emotions, especially sadness ) ▪ The dog looked up at her with big soulful eyes. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a soulful voice EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Almost without realizing it, he ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"full of feeling," 1860, from soul (n.1) + -ful . Meaning "expressive of characteristic Black feeling" is from 1964 (see soul (n.2)). Earlier as a noun (1640s), "as much as a soul can hold."
Usage examples of soulful.
Our little Bichon Frise looked up at me through her soulful black eyes and wagged her tail.
Bicce pitched back her head and uncorked another howl even more soulful, and frankly frightening, than the first.
It was Toku, a young vocalist and flugelhorn player who had already developed a reputation for a soulful sound that belied his twenty-nine years.
Perry focused in on Ula, who gave the elided camera the startled-doe gaze of one caught in a crime she had momentarily forgotten was illegal, the blankness persisting for only a beat before she flashed the loosest grin of the night, blew the lens a soulful kiss, and scampered nimbly for the house.
And Mata Safi, in the dimness that obscured the hard glint of her clustered jewels, was soft and soulful in the tone she thought was heard by Ted Trent, the man whose love she coveted.
Perry focused in on Ula, who gave the elided camera the startled-doe gaze of one caught in a crime she had momentarily forgotten was illegal, the blankness persisting for only a beat before she flashed the loosest grin of the night, blew the lens a soulful kiss, and scampered nimbly for the house.
Surely, if my heart broke again, it would sound just like this, though for all I knew, the lyrics were about cut worms and inguinal hernias, matters only made soulful through soaring harmonies.
One of 'em, a countess, was dark and soulful and soft-spoken, and possessed of the most enormous juggs I've ever seen.
They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred, a soulful Pithecanthropus erectus.
I passed the time browsing in the windows of the many tourist shops that stand along it, reflecting on what a lot of things the Scots have given the world - kilts, bagpipes, tam-o'-shanters, tins of oatcakes, bright yellow jumpers with big diamond patterns of the sort favoured by Ronnie Corbett, plaster casts of Greyfriars Bobby looking soulful, sacks of haggis - and how little anyone but a Scot would want them.
Lucie Waldon, as everybody knew, was a famous beauty, a marvel of charm and daintiness, slender, with big, soulful, wistful eyes.
The large dark brown eyes had lost their usual soulful look as they strained intently through the tinted Plexiglas visor to read the sea conditions for changes in wind or wave height.