Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wrathful; angry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Excited by wrath; wrathful; indignant; angry: rarely used attributively.
- To become angry; be wrathful; rage.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Etymologies
- Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreit- (“to turn”). Akin to Old Frisian wrēþ ("evil"), Old Saxon wrēd ("evil") (Dutch wreed "cruel"), Old High German reid ("cruel"), Old Norse reiðr "angry" (Danish vred, Swedish vred). Cognate with Albanian ngridhem ("to get angry, exited, be in heat"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English wrāth; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I can understand, read and sing in Tagalog, wroth is a long standing deviant dedicated to our community in many ways.”
“Welcome to the thirtieth edition of the still awesomely named depthCORE. com Collective are proud to present our 36th exhibition, a freestyle collection of sins, crims and good old fashioned booty entitled wroth is a long standing deviant dedicated to our community in many ways.”
“I should never have spoken of this if I had been 'wroth' with him -- in that way. ”
“And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.”
“And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?”
“I asked Charles, just before he fell asleep, why he was not wroth with them.”
“Then did she complain to her father, the old Pi-Une, and he was very wroth.”
“He said the girl knew not her own mind, and talked overmuch with her, and became wroth that such things should be.”
“She had also the pleasure of being turned away from that door, and of going back up the hill, wroth at heart for the indignity which had been put upon her.”
“So were all his people merry souls, save in anger, when, on occasion, they could be guilty even of throwing dead pigs at those who made them wroth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wroth’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Starts with a silent letter
...with grateful thanks to telofy (for "cnidarian"), and to the song "Crazy ABC's" by Barenaked Ladies.
cnidarian, mnemonic, chthonic, ptarmigan, psoriasis, psittacine, bdellium, aisle, czar, gnarly, gnat, gnaw and 82 more...
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A Song of Ice and Fire
Vocabulary from the epic fantasy series by George R. R. Martin!
destrier, wroth, garron, portcullis, craven, lickspittle, palfrey, ermine, surcoat, brigandine, doublet, deign and 7 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Cellar Door
It's the way the letters combine to form an beautiful whole and the way its sound tickles the ear.
capricious, sigh, jest, psyche, elf, wither, languish, wane, fade, caustic, pithy, epicene and 121 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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