glamourful

English

Alternative forms

• glamorful

Etymology

From glamour +‎ -ful.

Adjective

glamourful (comparative more glamourful, superlative most glamourful)

1. Full of glamour.
   • 1913 February 20, William T. Ellis, “The “Holy War”: An Exploded Bugaboo”, in The Continent, volume 44, number 8 (whole 2230), page 249, column 1:

     Like many other of the vague and glamourful conceptions of the Orient, this one is rather dissipated by close scrutiny.

   • 1916 June 5, “Says City Stifles Homes. Dr. Reisner Preaches on Living Conditions for Women Here.”, in The New York Times, volume LXV, number 21,317, New York, N.Y., page 9, column 4:

     “Women seem to think it is more noble to vote or to join clubs or to throw off the ‘yoke’ of common home duties. City life, with its cramped living quarters, its delicatessen shops which free them from cooking, its glamourful entertainments, its tempting hotel ease, its restricted play places for children as an excuse against having them in the home and the absence of the home atmosphere which a house and yard all create all help stifle, if not smother, the home spirit.”

   • 2005, Bruce Babington, “‘To catch a star on your fingertips’: diagnosing the medical biopic from The Story of Louis Pasteur to Freud”, in Graeme Harper, Andrew Moor, editors, Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine, London, New York, N.Y.: Wallflower Press, →ISBN, pages 121–122:

     A montage charting the Curies’ extraction of radium from pitch-blende in Madame Curie and a montage of Jolson’s accelerating career expressed by speeding trains and visited towns as he sings in The Jolson Story (Alfred E. Green, 1946) may both at the level of narrative function compress time and events, but their emotional, connotative meanings are distinct, one imbued with minute calculation and dogged reiteration, the other with glamourful eupeptic thrust, and while both embody the ‘teleology of fame’ (Custen 1992: 186), to wholly dissolve into an undifferentiated light both the ghostly glow of the researchers’ radium and the lights of Broadway is to lose too much.