closetful

American  

[kloz-it-fool] / ˈklɒz ɪtˌfʊl /

noun

• closetfuls
  plural

1. an amount sufficient to fill a closet.

   a closetful of new clothes.

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Spelling

See -ful.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• closetfuls
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of closetful

closet + -ful

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Example Sentences

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closetful closetfuls

Dana Conway, the Milo Minderbinder of the story, who can source anything, anyhow, and keeps a closetful of things she shouldn’t have; nervous Pvt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

Towering Jordan Donica announces his arrival as heartthrob Lancelot with a buoyantly operatic “C’est Moi,” and costume designer Jennifer Moeller wraps Soo in a beguiling closetful of chic frocks.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

Chelsea emerged into adulthood with a blowout, a practiced smile, and a closetful of quietly stylish blazers.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2016

Or was it more of the same old scandal, one more shoe dropping when we already knew he had a closetful?

From Time ● Jul. 24, 2013

How could girls with perfect hair and a closetful of stylish flannels from Hot Topic be wrong about anything?

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Its mainframe business, the core of the company, is being undermined by microchip miracles that make today's low-cost desktops as powerful as yesterday's closetfuls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joan and Ethel have bought a couple of closetfuls of creations by Manhattan Designer Nancy Herzlinger, a lithe, attractive mother of four.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could have produced closetfuls of "heirlooms" in attestation of this fact; for it is one more mark of Eleanor's competence that her friends usually pay the interest on her philanthropy.

From Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton

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