Etymology

damageful

D2A1M3A1G2E1F4U1L1

Today it means: Characterised by or causing damage; harmful Full definition →

Middle English damageful
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromdamageful
  2. English todaydamageful

From Middle English damageful, equivalent to damage + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.