Definition of "zestful" []

• Having a spirited love of life; ebullient (adjective)

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• "For me, it was the literary equivalent of a smallpox vaccination: I have never, so far as I know, used the word zestful in a novel or a story."
• "Worst of all or so it seemed to me at the time, Leinster had fallen in love with the word zestful."
• "He didn't direct "It's a Wonderful Life," but he lived one, a life of zestful achievement and exuberant friendship that seldom took him far from New York, the city he used, in all its gritty glory, as his back lot for such films as "Dog Day Afternoon," "Serpico" and "Prince of the City.""