单词 | wrackful |
释义 | † wrackfuladj.1 Obsolete. Characterized by resentment or anger; vengeful, angry. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [adjective] wrackfulc1230 vengeablec1430 wrakeful?a1505 wreakful1532 vindicativec1550 wreckful1557 vindictive1627 vengeful1649 resentive1736 the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [adjective] > characterized by or showing wrothc1000 highOE wrackfulc1230 indignant1590 snarling1599 umbrageous1601 indignatorya1624 resenting1634 resentful1656 affronted1663 bridling1673 begrudging1693 wrathy1873 c1230 [see wrackfully adv. at Derivatives]. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3818 He wente at the gayneste, Wondis of thas wedirwyns with wrakfulle dynttys. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 541 Suche a wrakful wo for wlatsum dedez Parformed þe hyȝe fader. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 302 Now God in nwy to Noe con speke Wylde wrakful wordez. DerivativesΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [adverb] wrakefullya1225 wrackfullyc1230 vengeably1412 revengefully1579 vengibly1580 revenginglya1616 vindictively1727 avengingly1824 vengefully1830 c1230 Hali Meid. 41 Hwen godd se wracfulliche fordemde his heh engel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † wrackfuladj.2 Obsolete. rare. Full of misery; wretched. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched un-i-selieOE drearyOE unseelyOE wretcha1122 usellc1175 unselea1200 wretcheda1200 misease?c1225 un-i-sele?c1250 wanlichec1275 miseasyc1300 wrackfulc1311 unblessed1340 wretchfula1382 wretchedful1382 caitiff1393 loddera1400 unhappena1400 pilledc1400 miserable?c1422 vengeablec1430 unhappyc1440 meschant?1473 miserousc1475 unselc1480 miser1542 forlorn1582 villainous1582 skybala1585 unblestful1608 despicable1635 haveless1868 the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective] > of conditions or events wretch1131 wretchedc1200 feeble1297 wrackfulc1311 woefula1393 miserousc1475 miserable?a1513 discomfortablea1535 calamitous1545 tristsum1567 woe1572 untoward1632 c1311 in Wright Pol. Songs (Camden) 256 For wille is red, the lond is wrecful; For wit is qued, the lond is wrongful. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020). wrackfuladj.3 Now archaic and rare. 1. Causing shipwreck; wreckful. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [adjective] > causing shipwreck wrackful1558 wreckful1596 wracking1611 naufragous1615 shipwreckinga1616 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. 64 To Syllas wrackfull shore with shypps approche we nye. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Tiv v That..shears the fruitles sande with wrakfull waues. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 43 To stand still firme against the roaring noise Of wrackfull Neptune. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 8 Where, King Latinus lent Safe harbor for his ships, with wrackfull tempests rent. 1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 7 These Lockes of blushing deeds, the gilt attire, Waues curling, wrackefull shelfes to shadow deepe. 1633 T. Bancroft Gluttons Feauer sig. F2v A Vessell, neare some wrackfull strand. 2. Causing destruction or devastation; effecting damage or harm; destructive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious litherc893 scathefulc900 orneOE teenfulOE atterlichc1050 evilc1175 wicka1250 scathela1300 deringa1325 unkindc1330 harmfula1340 ill1340 wicked1340 shrewdc1380 noisomea1382 venomed1382 noyfulc1384 damageousc1386 infectivea1398 unwholesomea1400 annoying?c1400 mischievous1414 damnablec1420 contagiousc1430 mischievable?a1439 damagefulc1449 damageable1474 unhappy1474 nuisable1483 nocible1490 nuisible1490 nuisant1494 noxiousa1500 nocent?c1500 hurtful1526 sinistral1534 nocive1538 offendent1547 offensivea1548 dangerous1548 naughtya1555 dispendious1557 offensible1575 wrackful1578 baneful1579 hindersome1580 scandalizing1593 damnifiable1604 taking1608 toadish1611 illful1613 nocivousc1616 mischieving1621 nocuous1627 obnoxious1638 nocumentous1644 vicious1656 nocumental1657 abnoxious1680 dungeonable1691 offending1694 hurtsomea1699 nociferous1706 sinister1726 damnific1727 hazardous1748 slaughtering1811 damaging1856 damnous1870 lethal1942 1578 W. Baldwin et al. Last Pt. Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 23 b Then my delight was in the diery dent Of wrackful warre. 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. 41 Eu'n so the king of streames..Beyond his banckes abroad all wrackfull goes. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxv. sig. E2v O how shall summers hunny breath hold out, Against the wrackfull siedge of battring dayes? View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Bancroft Gluttons Feauer sig. B6 Cracke all mine arteries with tortures tride, Yet must more stormes, more wrackfull woes abide? 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 50/1 A people that..has not had its mind and feelings warped by that wrackful war. 3. Subject to, attended by, injury, harm, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] wrackful1581 weedful1615 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective] > affected by wrongeda1547 wrackful1581 1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. B.iiij To shunne the sheete of shame, Which had bewrapt her wrackfull blemisht name. 1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice in Wks. (Grosart) II. 82/1 This Life, a Way; (a wrackfull way) that Wisedome lothes to proue. 1811 W. Scott Don Roderick Concl. vi. 60 What wanton horrors marked their wrackful path! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1c1230adj.2c1311adj.31558 |
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