soulful

[sohl-fuhl]

adjective

1. of or expressive of deep feeling or emotion.

   soulful eyes.

soulful

/ ˈsəʊlfʊl /

adjective

1. ironic,  expressing profound thoughts or feelings

   soulful music

Other Word Forms

• soulfully adverb
• soulfulness noun
• unsoulful adjective
• unsoulfully adverb
• unsoulfulness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of soulful¹

First recorded in 1860–65; soul + -ful

Example Sentences

What’s undeniable, though, is that her extraordinary artist’s eye and soulful nature emerged at an age when the rest of us were still content to simply play in our sandboxes.

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Flanked by pictures of owls and bumbling cartoon hunter Elmer Fudd, Kennedy praised barred owls for their “soulful eyes” and “incredibly soft” feathers.

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Powered by the breakout single Go, a raw but soulful break-up ballad, it earned the 25-year-old a Mercury Prize nomination for album of the year.

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Her lovely, ethereal vocalizing briefly infuses the show with the heart and soulful spirit that is conspicuously absent from Mr. Coen’s writing.

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Thanks in large part to a typically overworked performance by Mr. White, who is monotonously soulful and tortured, Springsteen comes across as an anti-icon.

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Related Words

• expressive 
• impassioned 
• passionate 
• stirring 
• touching