Reckful vs Wreckful - What's the difference?
reckful | wreckful |
Full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious.
*1845 , Allan Freer, The North British review :
*1994 , InfoWorld - Oct 24:
(poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
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As adjectives the difference between reckful and wreckful
is that reckful is full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious while wreckful is (poetic) causing wreckage; ruinous.reckful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Man, in fact, should be reckless in nothing, but reckful in every thing; [...]
- [...] it's tough to call when it's in that gray area between reckless stupidity and reckful insanity.
Antonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* (l)wreckful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- the wreckful siege of battering days — Shakespeare.
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