cultureful

English

Etymology

culture +‎ -ful

Adjective

cultureful (comparative more cultureful, superlative most cultureful)

1. Focused on culture.
   • 2008, Lynne T. Díaz-Rico, Strategies for Teaching English Learners, page 65:

     If culture is externalized mind and mind is internalized culture (Cole, 1998), postmodern teaching is about mindful and "cultureful" learning.

   • 2011, Emily Satterwhite, Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878:

     If white middle classness is generic and empty, then charmed Appalachians can access meaning by loose association with less privileged “Appalachians” who supposedly exhibit a more colorful, cultureful way of life.

2. Pertaining to intellectual activities.
   • 195?, Stanford University. Libraries, Stanford Library Bulletin - Volume 4, page 58:

     I am sure I'd feel oppressed in a system where so much of leisure activity is expected to be cultureful and self-improving.

   • 2004, Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Modern Blackness:

     By linking these sub-nationalities to cultures and by exculuding black Jamaicans from his list, he also (perhaps unwittingly) invoked the British colonial ideology that positioned laboring groups arriving in Jamaica after the abolition of slavery as cultureful—that is, as coming from civilizations with ancient text-based religions—as compared to transplanted Africans, who were positions as cultureless and therefore eminently assimilable.

   • 2017, Nadwan Rosetta, The Great Crush, page xl:

     In fifteen years, you can bring up thy country And make your people work in a full symmetry With their cultureful socialist revolutionary And learn how to read, write and speak freely Know that their ideas are costlier than jewellery And work for their motherland patriotically