Meanings
adjectiveworkful (comparative more workful, superlative most workful)
comparative more workful · superlative most workful
- rareFull of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful.
1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: A Novel
Origin
- Old Englishweorcful“active, industrious”
- Middle Englishworkvol
- Englishworkful
From Middle English workvol, from Old English weorcful (“active, industrious”), equivalent to work + -ful.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “workful,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/workful.
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