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despatchful

despatchful is the alternative form of dispatchful.

Meaning of dispatchful

Adjective

dispatchful (comparative more dispatchful, superlative most dispatchful)

  1. (archaic) hasty; hurried.
    • with dispatchful looks in haste
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Forms of despatchful

comparativemore despatchful
superlativemost despatchful

Origin of despatchful

From despatch + -ful.

Questions about despatchful

What is despatchful the alternative form of?
Despatchful is the alternative form of dispatchful.

Words near despatchful in the dictionary

  1. despatch cases
  2. despatched
  3. despatcher
  4. despatchers
  5. despatches
  6. despatchful
  7. despatching
  8. despatialization
  9. despatializations
  10. despatialize
  11. despatialized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: despatchful (page history and authors); dispatchful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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