What is the difference between unwrought and wrought?

Wrought is a antonym of unwrought.

As adjectives the difference between unwrought and wrought

is that unwrought is in its native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal while wrought is having been worked or prepared somehow.

As a verb wrought is

past tense of work.

unwrought

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

in its native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

wrought

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having been worked or prepared somehow.

Is that fence made out of wrought iron?

Antonyms

* unwrought

Derived terms

* wrought iron * wrought-up

Verb

(head)

(work)

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

Usage notes

* In modern English, wrought is usually not interchangeable with worked, the more common contemporary past and past participle of work. * Wrought often lends a more archaic flavor. * The separation of wrought'' from ''work'' has also occurred because while ''work'' can be either intransitive or transitive, it is more commonly intransitive, and ''wrought is transitive only. * Because the phrase "work havoc" has become uncommon in modern English, its past tense "wrought havoc" is sometimes misinterpreted as being a past tense of "wreak havoc".

Derived terms

* overwrought English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms