different between enraged vs wroth

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??e?d??d/

Adjective

enraged (comparative more enraged, superlative most enraged)

1. Angered, made furious, made full of rage.
2. (obsolete) Insane, mad.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     Of thirty bare yeares haue I
     twice twenty bin enraged,
     & of forty bin three tymes fifteene
     in durance soundlie caged,
     On y? lordlie loftes of Bedlam
     with stubble softe & dainty,
     braue braceletts Strong, sweet whips ding dong
     with wholesome hunger plenty

Verb

enraged

1. simple past tense and past participle of enrage

Anagrams

• Redange, agender, angered, derange, en garde, grandee, grenade

English

Etymology

From Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wr?þ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”). Akin to Saterland Frisian wreed (“haughty; proud”), Old Saxon wr?d (“evil”) (Dutch wreed (“cruel”)), Old High German reid (“cruel”), Old Norse reiðr (“angry”) (Danish vred, Swedish vred).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (UK, alternatively) IPA^(key): /???/
  • Homophone: wrath
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /???/

Adjective

wroth (comparative more wroth, superlative most wroth)

1. Full of anger; wrathful.
   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And to be wroth with one we love,

     Doth work like madness in the brain.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

   • 1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Part 3, Chapter 4

     Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools."

Synonyms

• wrath (rare)
• wrathful

Related terms

• wrath

Translations

References

• wroth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• wroth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -worth, Worth, throw, whort, worth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wrooth, wroþ

Etymology

From Old English wr?þ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”).

Adjective

wroth

1. Wrathful, wroth.