Wrathful
['rɒθfʊl;-f(ə)l;'rɔːθ-] or ['ræθfʊl]
Definition
(adj.) vehemently incensed and condemnatory; 'they trembled before the wrathful queen'; 'but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation' .
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Definition
(a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.
(a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance.
Edited by Henry
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Angry, mad, furious, infuriate, raging, rageful, wroth, indignant, passionate, resentful, exasperated, provoked, incensed, irate, ireful, in a passion, out of temper, out of tune.
Typist: Michael
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Angry, ireful, enraged, infuriated, raging, exasperated,[See WORTHLESS]
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Examples
- And Jo pulled her hair again with a wrathful tweak. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The gloomy taint that was in the Murdstone blood, darkened the Murdstone religion, which was austere and wrathful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Much mighty speech-making there has been, both in and out of Parliament, concerning Tom, and much wrathful disputation how Tom shall be got right. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The little doctor looked wrathful, but confounded; and Mr. Payne gazed with a ferocious aspect on the beaming countenance of the unconscious Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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