different between woven vs inwrought

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wo?v?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??v?n/
• Rhymes: -??v?n

Adjective

woven (not comparable)

1. Fabricated by weaving.

   Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.

2. Interlaced

   The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.

Derived terms

• bewoven

Translations

Noun

woven (plural wovens)

1. A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

Verb

woven

1. past participle of weave

   The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Verb

woven

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of wuiven

English

Etymology

From past participle of inwork.

Adjective

inwrought (comparative more inwrought, superlative most inwrought)

1. Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2. (figuratively) Fixed, established, ingrained.
   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104

     As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.

Synonyms

• (fixed, established, ingrained): See also Thesaurus:intrinsic

Translations