scathefulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 *scatheful (attested in derivative unnskaþefull) equivalent to scathe +‎ -ful. Cognate with Scots scathfull, scaithful (“harmful, hurtful, injurious, damaging”).

形容詞

scatheful (comparative more scatheful, superlative most scatheful)

1. (archaic) Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.

   Synonym: harmful

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 272:

     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?

派生語

• scathefulness