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Wroth vs Wrought - What's the difference?

wroth | wrought |

As adjectives the difference between wroth and wrought

is that wroth is full of anger; wrathful while wrought is having been worked or prepared somehow.

As a verb wrought is

(work).

wroth

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of anger; wrathful.
  • *
    • But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth , and his countenance fell.
  • * 1793,
    • And to be wroth with one we love,
    Doth work like madness in the brain.
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
  • * 1936 , (Dale Carnegie), (How to Win Friends and Influence People) , Part 3, Chapter 4
    • Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." [...]

    Related terms

    * wrath

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    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