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wreckful

wreckful adjective: causing wreckage; ruinous.

Adjective

wreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)

  1. (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
    • O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
      Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
      When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
      Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 65”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    • […]a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas[…]1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old

Forms of wreckful

comparativemore wreckful
superlativemost wreckful

Origin of wreckful

From wreck + -ful.

Questions about wreckful

What does wreckful mean?
Wreckful means causing wreckage; ruinous.
What part of speech is wreckful?
Wreckful is an adjective.

Words near wreckful in the dictionary

  1. wreckers' yards
  2. wreckest
  3. wrecketh
  4. wreckfish
  5. wreckfishes
  6. wreckful
  7. Wreckhouse
  8. wrecking
  9. wrecking amendment
  10. wrecking amendments
  11. wrecking ball

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