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soulful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soulful
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 began to play a soulful, haunting melody.
▪ As for Miguel, he would treat her to a long stare with those soulful eyes and mutter something she did not understand.
▪ He looked at Louis, who stood aside watching Jambo out of wounded, soulful eyes.
▪ I suppose I really am the soulful type.
▪ Later in the evening, a pack of coyotes surrounds us from a distance for a soulful evening howl.
▪ Like Modigliani, Jeanne was a romantic, a mysterious young woman with soulful blue eyes and a generous mouth.
▪ My lungs filled with soulful strength.
▪ The spiritual, soulful nature of work.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soulful

"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."

Wiktionary
soulful

a. 1 Full of emotion and vigor 2 Full of soul.

WordNet
soulful

adj. full of or expressing deep emotion; "soulful eyes"; "soulful music"

Wikipedia
Soulful (Dionne Warwick album)

Soulful, an album by Dionne Warwick, was released in 1969 on Scepter Records. It was the first of Warwick's Scepter albums that did not directly involve her longtime production and songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David being produced by Warwick and Chips Moman and comprising covers of Soul or what were considered Soul-influenced Pop songs designed to showcase Warwick as more of an R&B singer than had her collaborations with Bacharach and David.

Soulful

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
Soulful (Ruben Studdard album)

Soulful is the 2003 debut album from second-season American Idol winner Ruben Studdard. It was released on December 3, 2003, by J Records.

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.