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Reckful vs Wreck - What's the difference?

reckful | wreck |

As an adjective reckful

is full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious.

As a noun wreck is

something or someone that has been ruined.

As a verb wreck is

to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

reckful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious.
  • *1845 , Allan Freer, The North British review :
    • Man, in fact, should be reckless in nothing, but reckful in every thing; [...]
  • *1994 , InfoWorld - Oct 24:
    • [...] it's tough to call when it's in that gray area between reckless stupidity and reckful insanity.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    wreck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something or someone that has been ruined.
    • He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
  • The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
  • * Cowper
    • To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
  • An event in which something is damaged through collision.
  • * Addison
    • the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds
  • * Spenser
    • Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck , both of herself and goods.
  • * J. R. Green
    • Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
  • (legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
    • (Bouvier)

    Synonyms

    * crash * ruins

    Derived terms

    * shipwreck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
    • He wrecked the car in a collision.
    That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
  • * Shakespeare
    • Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .
  • To ruin or dilapidate.
  • (Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
  • To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
  • * Daniel
    • Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * build * construct * make * produce

    Derived terms

    * bewreck * wrecker * wreckage

    References