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Definition of Startful
1. a. Apt to start; skittish.
Definition of Startful
1. Adjective. Tending to start in fright; skittish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Startful
1. apt to start [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Startful
Literary usage of Startful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Sav, virgin, where dost thou delight to dwell Ч With maids of honour, startful
virgin ? Wolcot, P. Pindar, p. 174. Stung with too keen a sympathy, ..."
2. Poems by Eliza Gabriella Lewis (1850)
"... Brooding with moody lips—mute, startful, hot— A maniac look—that tale had o'er
her shot, I turned upon the sufferer to look— Her frame with all-unwonted ..."
3. The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835)
"... the maid Brooded with moving lips, mute, startful, dark! And now her flushed
tumultuous features shot Such strange vivacity, as fires the eye Of misery ..."
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