tradeful

English

Etymology

From trade +‎ -ful.

Adjective

tradeful (comparative more tradeful, superlative most tradeful)

1. (archaic) Full of trade; busy with commerce or involved in a large amount of business.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XV”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, recto:

     Ye tradefull Merchants that with vveary toyle, / Do ſeeke moſt pretious things to make your gain: […]

References

• “tradeful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.