Word: fritterware
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: fri
tter
ware
Definition: Software with excess capability that serves no productive end. The term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway.
Morphemes:
Affix: fritter
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: frit
Language: fr
Decoded: frit
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: fried
Affix: -ure
Language: fr
Decoded: -ure
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns describing the result of an action.
Affix: -ware
Language: en
Meaning: software