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  1. forming adjectives full of or characterized by ⇒ painful, spiteful, restful
  2. forming adjectives able or tending to ⇒ helpful, useful
  3. forming nouns indicating as much as will fill the thing specified ⇒ mouthful, spoonful
Where the amount held by a spoon, etc, is used as a rough unit of measurement, the correct form is spoonful, etc: take a spoonful of this medicine every day. Spoon full is used in a sentence such as he held out a spoon full of dark liquid, where full of describes the spoon. A plural form such as spoonfuls is preferred by many speakers and writers to spoonsful

Word Origin

Old English -ful, -full, from full1

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