workful

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

workful (comparative more workful, superlative most workful)

1. (rare) Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: A Novel:

     You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful.