wrathful
Origin of wrathful
1Other words for wrathful
1 | irate, furious, raging, incensed, enraged |
Other words from wrathful
- wrath·ful·ly, adverb
- wrath·ful·ness, noun
- un·wrath·ful, adjective
- un·wrath·ful·ly, adverb
- un·wrath·ful·ness, noun
Words Nearby wrathful
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How to use wrathful in a sentence
The term appears in the Bible typically describing wrathful and furious destruction.
But the punishment for those non-traditionalists who want to go ahead and have a female religious leader is fairly wrathful.
A wrathful market, like a wrathful god, keeps moral order in the universe.
War begun by the spirit of wrathful revenge is hard to stop, or even alter.
It changed all the benevolence of her nature into wrathful bitterness and unmitigated contempt.
The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyAn always wrathful God would repel His worshipers, or cast them into despair.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierHer brilliant wrathful eyes turned to the Earl's colourless face.
The Rake's Progress | Marjorie BowenMaid,” says I, now in wrathful amazement forgetting her afflicted state, “is you lost your senses?
The Cruise of the Shining Light | Norman Duncan
British Dictionary definitions for wrathful
/ (ˈrɒθfʊl) /
full of wrath; raging or furious
resulting from or expressing wrath
- Also (informal): wrathy
Derived forms of wrathful
- wrathfully, adverb
- wrathfulness, noun
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