wroth

[ rawth, rothor, especially British, rohth ]

adjective

1. angry; wrathful (usually used predicatively):

   He was wroth to see the damage to his home.

2. stormy; violent; turbulent:

   the wroth sea.

wroth

/ rɒθ; rəʊθ /

adjective

1. archaic.
   angry; irate

Word History and Origins

Origin of wroth¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English wrāth; cognate with Dutch wreed cruel, Old Norse reithr angry; akin to writhe

Word History and Origins

Origin of wroth¹

Old English wrāth; related to Old Saxon wrēth, Old Norse reithr, Old High German reid curly haired

Example Sentences

“Hackers will be watching this sentence to decide whether it’s wroth engaging in this kind of conduct,” Kosto said.

From Seattle Times

Immediately, she recognized it as the monogram cipher of Lady Mary Wroth, a contemporary of Shakespeare’s considered England’s first female fiction writer.

From New York Times

Wroth had also been party to a scandalous affair with her cousin, the third Earl of Pembroke, which she fictionalized in her two-volume romance, “Urania.”

From New York Times

Five years earlier, Braganza had seen a photograph of the cipher — which intertwines the initials of the fictional names Wroth gave herself and the earl — on the cover of a bound manuscript of one of Wroth’s plays, which Wroth had given to her lover as a gift.

From New York Times

Wroth’s personal library had been destroyed in a fire, with no volumes known to survive.

From New York Times

Related Words

• annoyed
• enraged
• exasperated
• furious
• incensed
• indignant
• infuriated
• irritated
• livid