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Wreakful vs Wrathful - What's the difference?

wreakful | wrathful |

As adjectives the difference between wreakful and wrathful

is that wreakful is vengeful; angry, furious while wrathful is possessed of great wrath; very angry.

wreakful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Vengeful; angry, furious.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
  • *:Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand / His dreadfull heast, much lesse him match in fight, / Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand […].

    • Related terms

    * wreakfully

    wrathful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Possessed of great wrath; very angry.