workful
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English workvol, from Old English weorcful (“active, industrious”), equivalent to work + -ful.
Adjective edit
workful (comparative more workful, superlative most workful)
- (rare) Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: A Novel:
- You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful.