workiest

Adjective

worky (comparative workier, superlative workiest)

1. (informal) Characterized by or pertaining to work.
   • The vvorky-daies are the back-part; / The burden of the vveek lies there, / Making the vvhole to ſtoup and bovv, / Till thy [God's] releaſe appeare.[[1633], George Herbert, “Sunday”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by...

   Synonyms:

   working, workish, worklike

2. (informal) Especially of attire: appropriate for work.
   • The problem with the meet-me-at-a-bar date is that I want to look as great as possible, without looking like I've made too much effort. Dresses feel too dressy, skirts too girly, tanks too booby, shirts too worky, and then of course we have the whole shoes issue.2013, Gemma Burgess, Brooklyn Girls, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 191

   Synonyms:

   businesslike

3. (informal) Requiring much work.
   • Richard's Caſtle ſtandeth at the top of a very vvorky hill, vvell vvooded, and at the vveſt end of the Pariſh Church there.1797, J[ohn] Price, quoting John Leland, “Sect. IV. Church, Charitable Foundations &c.”, in The Ludlow Guide, Comprising an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Town, and It’s...

   Synonyms:

   laborious, labor-intensive

4. (informal) Tending to be very serious about work.
   • Angelo has an important deadline, so he is all worky today.

   Synonyms:

   diligent, industrious, workish

5. (informal, obsolete) Showing the effect of much effort and work.
   • From England we came by the overland mail, / Waghorny quickly done; / […] / Where the sign of a dragon turns nobody pale; / But simply inspires a thought of pale ale, / With its whisky, frisky, worky, jerky, / Hoppery, poppery, spittery, bittery, / Frolicking frothy fun.1849 April 9 (first performance), J[ames] R[obinson] Planché, The Seven Champions of Christendom. An Original Comic Fantastic Spectacle […], London: S. G. Fairbrother, […], published [1849], →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   intricate, involved