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wreckless

wreckless adjective: without causing or suffering a wreck. Also the misspelling of reckless.

Adjective

wreckless (comparative more wreckless, superlative most wreckless)

  1. Without causing or suffering a wreck.
    • Hence to where our all-hallowed ark uprears / Its safe and wreckless sides.1822, [Lord Byron], “Heaven and Earth, a Mystery, […]”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South., volume I, number II, London: […] John Hunt, […], part I, scene III, page 200

Also used as

wreckless is also the misspelling of reckless.

Forms of wreckless

comparativemore wreckless
superlativemost wreckless

Origin of wreckless

From wreck + -less.

Questions about wreckless

What does wreckless mean?
Wreckless means without causing or suffering a wreck.
What part of speech is wreckless?
Wreckless is an adjective.

Words near wreckless in the dictionary

  1. wrecking pumps
  2. wrecking yard
  3. wrecking yards
  4. wreckings
  5. wreckish
  6. wreckless
  7. wreckling
  8. wrecklings
  9. wreckmaster
  10. wreckmasters
  11. wreckovation

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