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workful

workful adjective: full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.

Adjective

workful (comparative more workful, superlative most workful)

  1. (rare) Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
    • You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful.1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: A Novel

Forms of workful

comparativemore workful
superlativemost workful

Origin of workful

From Middle English workvol, from Old English weorcful (“active, industrious”), equivalent to work + -ful.

Words formed from workful

Questions about workful

What does workful mean?
Workful means full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
What part of speech is workful?
Workful is an adjective.

Words near workful in the dictionary

  1. workforce
  2. workforces
  3. workfree
  4. workfront
  5. workfronts
  6. workful
  7. workfulness
  8. workfunction
  9. workfunctions
  10. workgang
  11. workgangs

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