choiceful
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]choiceful (comparative more choiceful, superlative most choiceful)
- Having the opportunity to choose or make choices; abounding in choices
- Antonyms: choiceless, constrained
- 2005, Michael Angelo Larice, Great Neighborhoods:
- The movement has been re-jigged for a North American audience in some places, such as the Pacific Northwest, where the concept of 'Complete Communities” has gained favor in ensuring that neighborhoods are diverse, choiceful, and outfitted with the full panoply of social services, institutions and amenities […] .
- 2008, Debra Mandel, Don't Call Me a Drama Queen!:
- Rather, all the information, tools, and tips are simply aimed at keeping you conscious and choiceful.
- (obsolete) Making choices; fickle.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- His choiceful sense with every change doth fit.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “choiceful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)