English Explanatory Dictionary

scatheful

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.

Word forms

scatheful more scatheful most scatheful scathful scadeful

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

harmful

Derived words

scathefulness
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