Word Meanings - WRATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
wræ'ebtho, fr. wra'eb wroth; akin to Icel. reithi wrath. See Wroth, 1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii.
Additional info about word: WRATH
wræ'ebtho, fr. wra'eb wroth; akin to Icel. reithi wrath. See Wroth, 1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii. 1. Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. Southey. 2. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. "A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." Rom. xiii. 4. Syn. -- Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WRATH)
- Anger
- Ire
- incentment
- vexation
- grudge
- pique
- exasperation
- indignation
- enmity
- displeasure
- irritation
- passion
- spleen
- gall
- resentment
- rage
- animosity
- fury
- choler
- wrath
- Indignation
- Resentment
- anger
- denunciation
- ire
- protestation
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WRATH)
Related words: (words related to WRATH)
- INDIGNATION
1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious - SPLEENY
1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. - WRATHLESS
Free from anger or wrath. Waller. - WRATHILY
In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. - PIQUE
1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. Pique her, and soothe in turn. Byron. 2. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or - GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
Coarse meal. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - WRATHY
Very angry. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - PROTESTATION
Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - SPLEENFUL
Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson. - FORBEAR
1. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. But let me that plunder forbear. Shenstone. The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage. Tennyson. - GRUDGE
1. Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel. Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and eumity against hie brother Jacob. South. The feeling may not be envy; it may not - ENMITY
1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton. 2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4. Syn. -- Rancor; hostility; hatred; - IRRITATION
The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial - PASSIONLESS
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson. - PIQUET
A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. - SPLEENLESS
Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman. - CONCILIATE
To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - WANGER
A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer. - DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
See A - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - GRANGER
1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange. - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - TANGERINE
A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.