loveful adjective3 •(literary) Full of love; loving.For now she was so close to him and knelt, / And rose, him gracing with a loveful smile, / Pure and serene, more with her eyes than lips. — 1800 •(literary, nonstandard) Evoking a feeling of love; lovely.White and beautiful, gentle and loveful though she be, softly though she down the eyrie, and neatly though she arrange it for his reception, she is still but a dove — 1848 •(literary) Seeking or desiring love.So, all desire, when day hath fled, / And Twilight's wings the sky o'erspread, / Forth posts yon swain in loveful quest / To clasp his mistress to his breast. — 1874 formsmore loveful · most loveful