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wroth

/ɹɒθ/UK/ɹəʊθ/

wroth adjective: full of anger; wrathful.

Adjective

wroth (comparative more wroth, superlative most wroth)

  1. (archaic, formal) Full of anger; wrathful.
    • But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:5
    • You behold, Sir, how he waxeth Wroth at your Abode here.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 289
    Synonyms:
    wrath

wroth meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

wroth in Tamil

கடு, கடுத்தல்

wroth in Urdu

غصے سے بھر پور, خفا, ناراض

wroth in Kannada

ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡ, ಸಿಟ್ಟಾದ, ರೇಗಿದ

Examples of wroth in a sentence

  • And to be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain.1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John...
  • At this Sir Launcelot was very wroth; for he could not abide seeing a fellow-knight of the Round Table treated with such disregard as that which Sir Gaheris suffered at the hands of Sir Turquine; […]1905, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 48:
  • Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists.1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Part 3, Chapter 4:

Synonyms of wroth

Forms of wroth

comparativemore wroth
superlativemost wroth

Origin of wroth

From Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”). Akin to Saterland Frisian wreed (“haughty; proud”), Old Saxon wrēd (“evil”) (Dutch wreed (“cruel”)), Old High German reid (“cruel”), Old Norse reiðr (“angry”) (Danish vred, Swedish vred).

Words formed from wroth

Words that rhyme with wroth

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Questions about wroth

What does wroth mean?
Wroth means full of anger; wrathful.
What is wroth in Tamil?
Wroth in Tamil is கடு, கடுத்தல். See Wroth meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wroth in a sentence?
And to be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain.
What part of speech is wroth?
Wroth is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wroth?
Wroth is pronounced /ɹəʊθ/ (UK).

Words near wroth in the dictionary

  1. wrote the book
  2. wrote up
  3. wroten
  4. Wrotens
  5. wrotest
  6. wroth
  7. Wrotham
  8. wrothe
  9. wrothful
  10. wrothfully
  11. wrothily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wroth (page history and authors); wroth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wroth (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wroth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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