🌌 Wide open sky 💯 A huge amount ✨ Full sky amount

skyful

7.8

A very large amount of something like praise or applause

noun
/ˈskaɪfəl/

Archaic

: gran cantidad

After the storm, the sky was clear and a skyful of stars lit up the night.

Examples

It'll be a skyful of dust, a fart in the solar wind.

Fiction book (2000)
The artist created a stunning mural that depicted a skyful of vibrant colors and shapes.
They were trained to direct flight patterns and guide precision strikes using a skyful of warplanes, bombers, and fighters alike.

Fiction book (2002)
The garden was filled with a skyful of blooming flowers, adding beauty to the landscape.

Antonyms

lack

∞ 1.3

Not having something you need or want

scarcity

29 4.4

A situation where there is not enough of something people need

How Much

ocean

70 1.0

skyful

Archaic

7.8

tons

Informal

1 2.1

a lot

∞ 1.0

some

∞ 1.0

a little

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

skyful singular

skyfuls plural

Morphology

skyful = sky (semi-transparent) = sky + ful

Components are obvious ('sky' + '-ful'), but the sense is metaphorical ('a lot of X'), so the exact meaning is figurative rather than literal.

Etymology

Skyful joins sky and -ful, the same 'full of' you see in handful, to create a clear picture in your mind. So a skyful of applause or compliments means a very large amount.