Meaning

2 senses

  1. The amount a sack will contain.

    A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.

    the quantity contained in a sack

  2. (figuratively)A large number or amount (of something).

    1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From sack (“bag”) + -ful.

From sack (“bag”) + -ful.

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Forms

plural: sackfuls / sacksful
Singularsackful
Pluralsackfuls / sacksful

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
sackload
Close in meaning
  • the quantity contained in a sack:sack

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sacsackB2sacramentsacredB1sacrificeC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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