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Wrecked vs Fearful - What's the difference?

wrecked | fearful |

As adjectives the difference between wrecked and fearful

is that wrecked is destroyed in an accident etc while fearful is frightening.

As a verb wrecked

is (wreck).

wrecked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • destroyed in an accident etc
  • (slang) drunk
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (wreck)
  • fearful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
  • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also