What does soulful mean?

Definitions for soulful
ˈsoʊl fəlsoul·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. soulfuladjective

    full of or expressing deep emotion

    "soulful eyes"; "soulful music"

Wiktionary

  1. soulfuladjective

    Full of emotion and vigor

  2. soulfuladjective

    Full of soul.

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  1. soulful

    Soulful refers to expressing deep and often sorrowful emotion, passion, empathy, or sensitivity. It typically denotes a strong emotional or spiritual depth or an intense feeling, often associated with a person, their actions, their creations such as music, art, or a performance.

Wikidata

  1. Soulful

    Soulful, an album by Dionne Warwick, was released in 1969 on Scepter Records. It was the first of Warwick's Scepter albums that did not directly involve her longtime production and songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David being produced by Warwick and Chips Moman and comprising covers of Soul or what were considered Soul-influenced Pop songs designed to showcase Warwick as more of an R&B singer than had her collaborations with Bacharach and David.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of soulful in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of soulful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of soulful in a Sentence

  1. Bradley Cooper:

    You know, when you have access to that kind of information you get a side to someone that no one really ever sees. You see the family man, you see how loving he was, and I think that Bradley really brings that heart, that balance between him as the military man but also this soulful, loving father. it was a keyhole into that life.

  2. Susan Silver:

    The three of us had a date, he and my uncle got along beautifully… I only went on one date with him, but he was so brilliant and so amusing. He had beautiful eyes. He was very soulful. He was really good looking! I have a T-shirt [now] with his face on it… I didn’t go to bed with him then, but now I sleep with him occasionally at night. And it’s safer that way!

  3. Brian Grazer:

    Cynthia Erivo blew me away. Not only is Cynthia Erivo an incredible and bona fide star, but Cynthia Erivo is soulful and has tremendous depth as a musical artist, cynthia Erivo is the perfect person to portray the profoundly human story behind the genius that is Aretha.

  4. Jason Aldean:

    [She's] really soulful, has cool, raspy kind of voice I dig listening to her sing.

  5. Steven Siebert:

    He was a soulful gentleman with zero ego.

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