scatheful

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious. archaic
    — A bawbling Veſſell was he Captaine of, For ſhallow draught and bulke vnprizable, With which ſuch ſcathfull grapple did he make, With the moſt noble bottome of our Fleete, That very enuy, and the tongue of loſſe Cride fame and honor on him: What's the matter?

词形变化

more scatheful comparative most scatheful superlative scathful alternative scadeful alternative

词源

From Middle English *scatheful (attested in derivative unnskaþefull), from Old English sceaþful (“hurtful”), equivalent to scathe + -ful. Cognate with Scots scathfull, scaithful (“harmful, hurtful, injurious, damaging”).
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