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Reckful vs Wreckful - What's the difference?

reckful | wreckful |

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)
  • 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.

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    wreckful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
  • the wreckful siege of battering days — Shakespeare.
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