lookful

English

Etymology 1

look +‎ -ful

Adjective

lookful (comparative more lookful, superlative most lookful)

1. (rare) Looking carefully; observant.
   • 1823, Aeschylus, The Prometheus Chained, page 52:

     Then immediately were my shape and my mental-faculties distored, and horn-furnished, as ye see, I with frantic speed, by the sharp-mouthed gadfly stung, rushed to the thirst-assuaging stream of Cenchréa, and the fountain of Lérna—whilst the Earth-born herdsman Argos, zealous in anger, followed me, lookful on my steps with many eyes.

   • 2009, Brenda Hillman, Practical Water, page 98:

     The lookful page is watching with its seeds of extra time; as a mother sowed the cosmos, so the page — as a shadow sews a pocket.

2. Attractive; nice to look at.
   • 1928, The Judge - Volume 95, page 72:

     His girls on this occasion look no more lookful than those in the average musical show.

Etymology 2

look +‎ -ful

Noun

lookful (plural lookfuls or looksful)

1. As much as can be seen in one look.
   • 1983, T. H. White, The Maharajah and Other Stories, page 134:

     Quickly on the trapdoor, so that his despairing blindfold, nuzzling the new room avidly for a last lookful of life, might not through linen see one detail.