lightful

• enPR: lītʹfo͝ol
• Hyphenation: light‧ful

From Middle English lightful, lihtful (“luminous, providing enlightenment”), from light, liht (noun) +‎ -ful (“full of (a feeling)”, suffix forming adjectives).^[1] See more at light (noun).

lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)

1. (poetic) Full of light; bright.
   • a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm LVIII”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 101:

     formlesse eyes doe faile / To see the sun, though brought to lightfull land.

   • a. 1619 (date written), [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “A Divine and True Tragi-comedy; Iob Triumphant in His Triall: Or The Historie of His Heroicall Patience. In a Measured Metaphrase. The Third Book..”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], London: […] Robert Young, published 1633, →OCLC, page 470:

     His lightfull Lamp reflected on my head, / Whereby I walkt through Darkneſs

   • 1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:

     [The door] had a gloomy and surly aspect, but the hall within was lightful and airy

• lightfulness (noun)

From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) +‎ -ful (“full of, having”, adjective).

lightful (comparative more lightful, superlative most lightful)

1. Light; cheerful.

• lightfulness (noun)

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “lightful”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.