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REPOSEFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reposeful mean?
• REPOSEFUL (adjective)
The adjective REPOSEFUL has 1 sense:
1. affording physical or mental rest
Familiarity information: REPOSEFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affording physical or mental rest
Synonyms:
Context example:
she spent a restful night at home
Similar:
slumberous; slumbrous (quiet and tranquil)
Context examples
So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house, while nodding Hannah mounted guard at the door.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I drink your health, dear. and John sipped his tea with an air of reposeful rapture, which was of very short duration however, for as he put down his cup, the door handle rattled mysteriously, and a little voice was heard, saying impatiently...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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