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  wrath

  noun

  strong, stern, or fierce anger; deeply resentful indignation; ire.
• Wrath
  Wrath

  noun

  Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.

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wrath

¹ American  

[rath, rahth, rawth] / ræθ, rɑθ, rɔθ /

noun

1. strong, stern, or fierce anger; deeply resentful indignation; ire.

   Synonyms:

   choler, fury, resentment, rage

2. vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger.

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adjective

1. Archaic. wroth.

Wrath ² American  

[rath] / ræθ /

noun

1. Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.

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wrath ¹ British  

/ rɒθ /

noun

1. angry, violent, or stern indignation

2. divine vengeance or retribution

3. archaic a fit of anger or an act resulting from anger

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adjective

1. obsolete incensed; angry

Wrath ² British  

/ rɔːθ, rɒθ /

noun

1. a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland

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Other Word Forms

• wrathless
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of wrath

First recorded before 900; (for the noun) Middle English wraththe, Old English wrǣththo, equivalent to wrāth wroth + -tho -th ¹; (for the adjective) variant of wroth by association with the noun

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Explanation

Wrath is great anger that expresses itself in a desire to punish someone: Noah saw the flood as a sign of the wrath of God. Wrath is also used figuratively of things that behave in a violent way: Earthquakes are the wrath of the sea. This noun and the corresponding adjective wrathful are in literary use but are formal or old-fashioned words, that crop up in fantasy fiction or movies set in prehistoric times.

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Hello Kitty is not the only internationally beloved figure to have face such wrath in China in recent days.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

But Long Beach wasn’t the only victim of the ocean’s effortless wrath this weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Of course, as so many 19th-century paintings capture, left out of this telling is that Orestes’ crimes incur the Furies’ wrath.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Economists at S&P Global Ratings said preparatory measures, from larger grain reserves to investments in water management, should shield exposed Asian economies—even if “El Niño’s wrath is unavoidable.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

His mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wrath of The Gods completes Robin Hardy's Wicker trilogy and is dedicated to Justin's mother Caroline, who was a secret uncredited executive producer on the original 1973 film.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

We’ve got to throw in ‘The Grapes of Wrath.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

He had just completed production on Wrath of the Gods, the concluding chapter to the Wicker Man trilogy, which was due to premiere later this month.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

In “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” hundreds of little monkeys invaded the raft where Aguirre is half dead, drifting on the Amazon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Marya was mistress of a small keep on Cape Wrath, with servants who called her m’lady, and Davos could hunt red deer in his own woods.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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