Wrackful

Wrackful
Wrackful Wrack"ful, a. Ruinous; destructive. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

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  • wrackful — adjective Date: 1558 destructive …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • wrackful — /rak feuhl/, adj. ruinous. [1550 60; WRACK1 + FUL] * * * …   Universalium

  • wrackful — wrack·ful …   English syllables

  • wrackful — fəl adjective : causing wrecks or wreckage : destructive, injurious …   Useful english dictionary

  • destructive — [adj1] injurious, devastating annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell,… …   New thesaurus

  • ruinous — [adj] disastrous, devastating annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate,… …   New thesaurus

  • wrecful — variant of wrackful a.2 Obs …   Useful english dictionary

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