Meanings
comparative more wreakful · superlative most wreakful · alternative wreakfull · alternative wreckful
- obsoletepoeticVengeful; angry, furious.
He sinks, to every wreakful fiend a prey; / His bosom shut to each affection kind; …
1802, The Spirit of Anti-Jacobinism2 more examples
Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand / His dreadfull heast, much lesse him match in fight, / Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCUnpropp'd, unsuccoured by stake or tree, / From wreakful storms' impetuous tyranny, [...]
1842, Thomas Miller, Rural SketchesSynonyms: furious, vindictive, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVengeful; angry, furious.
Origin
- Middle Englishwrakeful
- Englishwreakful
From Middle English wrakeful, equivalent to wreak + -ful.
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