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Frolicsome. [R.]

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. T…

Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.

Full of game or games.

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

See Ghastful, Ghastly.

Joyful; showy. [Obs.]

Gazing. [R.] Spenser.

Changeable; capricious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.

Full of gladness; joyful; glad. [R.] -- Glad"ful*ness, n. [R.] Spenser. It followed him with gladful glee. Spenser.

Glassy; shining like glass. [Obs.] "Minerva's glassful shield." Marston.

Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.

ing grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays. Milton.

Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle.

Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

Agonizing; sad. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having capacity of growth. [R.] J. Hamilton.

Full of grudge; envious. "Grudgeful discontent." Spenser.