roomful
- noun
- /ˈrumˌfəl/
- The windows were open to a spring day pretty enough to inspire a roomful of seventh-grade nondancers to get up and dance.
Examples
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What is it like to be different in a roomful of people who specialize in difference?
Blog text (3) -
The day after my father phoned, I found myself in a fifth-floor walkup in SoHo, among a roomful of strangers.
Fiction book (2000) -
I got a roomful of press waiting for me.
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But was this something for a roomful of politicians to decide?
Academic text (2000) -
It's like a roomful of pharmaceutical executives.
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When it was time, she was led to the classroom to sit beside a roomful of girl students.
Fiction book (1996) -
Many schools, however, started with a roomful of worn-out books and no paid personnel.
Academic text (2006) -
Can't be easy talking to a roomful of strangers about those things.
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Wasn't that just like Rose, choosing to confront her now, with a roomful of guests just down the hall?
Fiction book (1998) -
I spoke to a roomful of eager students during my lecture.
Synonyms
The maximum amount something can hold or store
The number of people who can fit in a house at one time
An amount that fills a bag, like apples or candies
The amount that fills a cup used for measuring
An amount that fills a large suitcase or a car's storage space
A small amount of liquid that fills the lid of a bottle
An amount that fills a box
A closet full of things like clothes or boxes
A large amount of something you can fit in a hat
The amount of fuel a tank can hold
An amount large enough to fill a ship with goods or people
A full load that fills a cart
A large amount of food or many guests for a meal
An amount of things that fills a chest
A large amount of grain or hay that fills a barn
A full load of people or things in a boat
The amount that fills a container
An amount that fills a box, for example wine bottles in one box
An amount that fills a large open container like a bucket
Enough items to fill a shelf
Filled with many books on shelves
Antonyms
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roomful is made from room and the ending -ful, where -ful means 'as much as will fill'. Like handful or cupful, it means the amount or number that fills a room.