wreckful

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English

Etymology

From wreck +‎ -ful.

Adjective

wreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)

  1. (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 65”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. , London: By G Eld for T T and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
      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?
    • 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old‎:
      […] a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas […]
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