different between irascible vs wroth

English

Etymology

From French irascible, from Late Latin ?r?scibilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???æs.?.b?l/, /???æs.?.b?l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Adjective

irascible (comparative more irascible, superlative most irascible)

1. Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.
   • 1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York, ch. 16:

     . . . the surly and irascible passions which, like belligerent powers, lie encamped around the heart.

   • 1863, Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches, ch. 1:

     I am naturally irascible, and if I could have shaken this negative gentleman vigorously, the relief would have been immense.

   • 1921, William Butler Yeats, Four Years, ch. 10:

     . . . a never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible—did he not fling a badly baked plum pudding through the window upon Xmas Day?

   • 2004 Feb. 29, Daniel Kadlec, "Why He's Meanspan," Time:

     Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage — suckers! — and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma.

Synonyms

• cantankerous, choleric, cranky, ill-tempered, hot-tempered

Related terms

Translations

References

• irascible at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ?r?scibilis, from ?r?scor (“grow angry”), from ?ra (“anger”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.?a.sibl/

Adjective

irascible (plural irascibles)

1. irascible

Related terms

• ire

Further reading

• “irascible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ciblerais

Spanish

Adjective

irascible (plural irascibles)

1. irascible

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.