brainful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
As much as one person can think about or hold in mind at one time.
adj
Example Sentences
- "A heartful of desire, man's natural load, A brainful of belief, the noble's lot,—"
- "My only hope is that the memory of my real friendship for each one will blot out the recollection of the brainfuls of non-essentials which they were bidden to bear about with them, at least till the day of reckoning."
- "The truly literate person knows thousands of words, often in several different languages, and has absorbed from listening and reading and seeing (for example, on TV) a whole brainful of thoughts and facts that he can recall and think about."
- "I can only usefully hold one brainful of detail at a time, and a thousand-line method contains way more than one brainful."
- "His Philosophy in Exile course was a brainful. It kicked my ass, but unlike many of my classes, it didn't waste my time."
- "Stephens dubbed him, the Peter the Hermit of the tragic secession that drove to a head the great civil revolution, were of the brainful and dominant Scotch-Irish blood, and exemplified its traits and powers."