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PRONUNCIATION OF WRECKFUL

wreckful  [ˈrɛkfʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WRECKFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wreckful is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WRECKFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wreckful in the English dictionary

The definition of wreckful in the dictionary is causing wreckage.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WRECKFUL


bookful
ˈbʊkfʊl
cheekful
ˈtʃiːkfʊl
dislikeful
dɪsˈlaɪkfʊl
forkful
ˈfɔːkfʊl
friskful
ˈfrɪskfʊl
lockful
ˈlɒkfʊl
pokeful
ˈpəʊkfʊl
rackful
ˈrækfʊl
rebukeful
rɪˈbjuːkfʊl
riskful
ˈrɪskfʊl
sackful
ˈsækfʊl
stickful
ˈstɪkfʊl
tankful
ˈtæŋkfʊl
thankful
ˈθæŋkfʊl
truckful
ˈtrʌkfʊl
trunkful
ˈtrʌŋkfʊl
unthankful
ʌnˈθæŋkfʊl
wakeful
ˈweɪkfʊl
wrackful
ˈrækfʊl
wreakful
ˈriːkfʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WRECKFUL

wreathen
wreather
wreathless
wreathlike
wreathy
wreck
wreckage
wrecked
wrecker
wreckfish
wrecking
wrecking ball
wrecking bar
wrecking crane
wreckmaster
Wrekin
wren
wrench
wrencher
wrenchingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE WRECKFUL

awful
beautiful
careful
colorful
delightful
faithful
grateful
handful
harmful
helpful
hopeful
meaningful
painful
peaceful
playful
powerful
prankful
successful
useful
wonderful

Synonyms and antonyms of wreckful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wreckful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WRECKFUL

Find out the translation of wreckful to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wreckful from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wreckful» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

wreckful
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wreckful
570 millions of speakers

English

wreckful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

wreckful
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

wreckful
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

wreckful
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wreckful
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

wreckful
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wreckful
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wreckful
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wreckful
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

wreckful
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wreckful
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wreckful
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

wreckful
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भयानक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wreckful
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wreckful
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wreckful
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

wreckful
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wreckful
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wreckful
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wreckful
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wreckful
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wreckful
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wreckful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WRECKFUL»

The term «wreckful» is used very little and occupies the 192.653 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WRECKFUL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wreckful

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WRECKFUL»

Discover the use of wreckful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wreckful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Wreckful's Run
The masterly new thriller from the author of The Bone Box is based on potentially explosive current international reality, as well as actual archeological finds of great magnitude.
Itamar Bernstein, Byron Bernstein, 2011
2
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The OED has two entries for wreckful, the first of which, meaning “vengeful,” it declares “obsolete,” and the last example of it is dated 1610; but a related word, wreakful (in a separate entry) carried that meaning into the mid-eighteenth century.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat, 2004
3
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing ...
(Shakespeare, Sonnet 65) Among the experiences these lines give the reader are "summer," "honey breath," "wreckful siege," "battering days," "rocks impregnable," and "gates of steel." The reader is assaulted by the violent words — wreckful, ...
Kenneth Koch, 1999
4
Shakespearian Tempest -
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? (Sonnet lxv) 'Rage' and 'wreckful' are usual ideas; and flowers ...
G. Wilsin Knight, 2014
5
The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. ...
... hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 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?
William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, 1866
6
Kabir:
... 'Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade', 'yet do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong', 'When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced/The rich proud cost of outworn buried age', 'Against the wreckful siege of wreckful days,/When ...
Kabir, 2001
7
Language in Literature
0 how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of batt' ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from  ...
Michael Toolan, 2014
8
Teachers College Record
Of canary ora bear-baiting than in all yourhowling apostrophas. The wreckful gods pour me a cup of sack! MASTER: Why, thou rude, unlettered tun of man. What knowest in this kind? What knowest thou of Seneca and Plautus, of tragedy,  ...
‎1916
9
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume
... And through the pardons in his male, he worltes a knavlshe knaclte. a The wreckful invasion of a part of the English pale is then described with some spirit; the burning of houses, driving off cattle, and all pertaining to such predatory inroads, ...
Sir Walter Scott, 1831
10
Miscellanies, in two parts. 1. Prose. 2. Verse, etc
O deign to hear my votive prayer! 0 make this splendid charge your care ! Around it play in sportive ring ;— Your choicest blessings hither bring :— Arrest the hand of wreckful Time, Endow it with perennial prime; And may the name”? august it ...
William Fordyce Mavor, 1829

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WRECKFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wreckful is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Will Markets Resume Their Rise?
“How shall summer's honey breath hold out against the wreckful siege of battering days?” – William Shakespeare,Sonnets (18) After all, we are coming into the ... «Wall Street Sector Selector, Jul 15»
2
Adolf Muschgs Eröffnungsrede zu den Zürcher Festspielen …
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, ... «Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Jun 15»
3
Unfortunate but necessary to regulate Vapostori beliefs
While religion indeed plays an influential role in our lives, there certainly is a need to monitor some wreckful beliefs. The Vapostori beliefs become a great cause ... «New Zimbabwe.com, Jun 14»
4
About “The One” and its other co-main
That sort of thing can get a lad spearchiseled by Matthysse, which may well happen anyway but shouldn't till Garcia somehow lands his reckless/wreckful left ... «15rounds.com, Sep 13»
5
Shakespeare Gets Weird in the Summer
Summer's honey breath cannot hold out forever against the wreckful siege of battering days, after all, so find one of these strange theatrical productions while ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 13»
6
The Good Leads
Spoonerism was nightmarishly going ahead mythically below the fortnightly wreckful sauntedrer. Ahead cyan revelin may crochet despite the subtonic. Chenita ... «Wall Street Journal, Nov 11»

REFERENCE
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