dispatchful

English

Alternative forms

• despatchful

Etymology

dispatch +‎ -ful

Adjective

dispatchful (comparative more dispatchful, superlative most dispatchful)

1. Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     with dispatchful looks in haste
     She turns , on hospitable thoughts intent

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispatchful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)