Meaning of formful | Babel Free
Definitions
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creative; imaginative; obsolete
- Not formless; having a form; substantive.
- Well formed; aesthetically pleasing and skillfully constructed.
- Exhibiting proper and skillful performance; well-executed.
Examples
“As fleets the vision o'er the formful brain”
“Fearless, with face oblique, her formful hand Flies o'er the ivory Plain, with stretch'd command; Plunges, with bold neglect, amidst the keys, And sweeps the sounding range with magic east.”
“Creation is at root a process of rendering formful and substantial ("filled") what was originally amorphous and empty, of establishing domains and their appropriate populace.”
“How one can say that - God is only formful.”
“Out of the formless the formful has come into being.”
“Potters are craftworkers; that is, they use their hands to make objects for everyday use that need to have form and design as an integral part of their being. To be able to do this potters need a certain ability, not only of the hands (as most might think) but especially a capacity to see what is formful, beautiful, characteristic and so on.”
“We are all often indignant, and sometimes witty about our indignations, but we do not thereby turn satirists. For it is not only the anger and the involvement, the idealism and the wit, but the manipulations of them, how they are turned to formful, organic use that constitute the satric art.”
“If we must guard against the notions of form, coherence or justifying too narrowly, in terms of what is generally praised as “harmony” and “balance,” we must equally avoid interpreting them so broadly that everything whatever is “formful” simply because it has parts in relation to one another.”
“The number of winning favorites is one of the best indications of formful racing.”
“Pitchers: Grip, receiving signals on mound, working with a wind-up, working from stretch position, formful delivery and follow through, holding runner close, strategy, working on control by pitching through the strings.”
“If your finish position is sound, balanced, and formful, then the mechanics necessary to give you that result had to occur!”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.