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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Marked by a wreck or wreckage; resembling something that has been wrecked; banged up.
[...] good regular teeth betwixt it and the finely-formed Grecian nose — all indicated the wreck of good looks and the wrecksome story which they sometimes entail.
[...] unfortunate man, was unable to catch the drift of the lecture — he lay half unconscious at the foot of the ruined stairs. Mad man! reckless, wrecksome wreck!
“It doesn't surprise me one bit that I had to reinjure my wrecksome toes in a last act of kindness toward ye,” he said.
Use wrecksome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wrecksome means Marked by a wreck or wreckage; resembling something that has been wrecked; banged up.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[...] good regular teeth betwixt it and the finely-formed Grecian nose — all indicated the wreck of good looks and the wrecksome story which they sometimes entail.
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