chapterful

English

Etymology

chapter +‎ -ful

Noun

chapterful (plural chapterfuls)

1. As much as fills a chapter.
   • 1970, Saül W. Gellerman, The uses of psychology in management, page 66:

     Only a rough sketch will be attempted here—partly because this topic could fill up a book of its own and partly because the author does not have a bookful or even a chapterful of ideas on the subject.

   • 1992, Robert McLiam Wilson, Donovan Wylie, The Dispossessed, page 180:

     I never really discovered how to write this book. A year and more ago, it seemed a fairly simple undertaking. I already felt so much about poverty - I set out with chapterfuls of opinions and theories.

   • 2002, Robin Hirsch, Ian Hodkinson, Relation Algebras by Games, page 582:

     Well, we have seen this kind of phenomenon before, and the long-suffering reader will now be expecting a chapterful of negative results on the finite base property for relation-type algebras.