🤯 A lot of thoughts 💇 A lot of hair

headful

1 7.9

A large amount of ideas or knowledge in a person's mind

noun
/ˈhɛd.fəl/

: cabeza llena

Saul had that knack: an absolutely fearless little fighter, a headful of words, and a voice like a whip.

Examples

The buzzing against the side of the house drove Vera crazy; she said it sounded like she had a headful of bees.

Fiction book (1991)
He took off his uniform and packed it away, along with a headful of memories.
She had a headful of designs as to how they might improve the project.
After studying for hours, I felt I had a headful of knowledge about the subject.

Antonyms

ignorance

316 3.9

Not knowing about something or how it works

emptiness

14 3.6

A space or place that has nothing in it

Surface Forms

headful singular

headfuls plural

Morphology

headful = head (transparent) = head + ful

The noun denotes an amount corresponding to filling the 'head' (analogous to 'handful' or 'cupful'), a straightforward quantity formation.

Etymology

The word headful comes from head and the ending -ful, which means 'full of'. Think of your head like a small container full of ideas or facts, so headful means a large amount of knowledge or ideas in your mind.