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Lifeful vs Lifeless - What's the difference?

lifeful | lifeless |

As adjectives the difference between lifeful and lifeless

is that lifeful is full of vitality; bestowing life while lifeless is inanimate; having no life.

lifeful

English

Alternative forms

* lyfull (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of vitality; bestowing life.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.11:
    • Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].
  • * 1818 , (John Keats), Endymion , I:
    • A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.

    lifeless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • inanimate; having no life
  • dead; having lost life
  • uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
  • dull or lacking vitality
  • departed

    • Derived terms

    * lifelessness