wreckish

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adjective

Like or resembling a wreck

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivewreckish (comparative more wreckish, superlative most wreckish)

comparative more wreckish · superlative most wreckish

  1. Like or resembling a wreck

    But there was nothing wreckish about it.

    2000, Daniel Wallace, Ray in Reverse
    2 more examples

    Would like to write a more amusing letter but feel too wreckish.

    2012, Barbara Skelton, 'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More'

    And when we had got free, and gazed around on the wreckish results the stoutest of us quailed.

    2013, E. Nesbit, Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit

Origin

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APA

wreckish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wreckish

MLA

“wreckish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wreckish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wreckish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wreckish.

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