Wrought vs Wrongly - What's the difference?
wrought | wrongly |
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
(work)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= In an unfair or immoral manner; unjustly.
Incorrectly; by error.
As an adjective wrought
is having been worked or prepared somehow.As a verb wrought
is (work).As an adverb wrongly is
in an unfair or immoral manner; unjustly.wrought
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
Antonyms
* unwroughtDerived terms
* wrought iron * wrought-upVerb
(head)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".wrongly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- I wrongly assumed that it would be an easy job.