wrathful
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7.3
- adjective
- /ˈræθfəl/
- Literature
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- The wrathful storm caused significant damage to the coastal town.
- wrathful God
Never go to bed wrathful, I think is what his advice was for couples.
- Never go to bed wrathful, I think is what his advice was for couples.
- And she says I was a messenger and a soldier assassin for a wrathful God who ruled a young world.
- So generally the purpose of these wrathful tantric deities is to cut through the the conceptual mind.
- I looked around and there was a jungle manifesting the same seeding hatred, wrathful and steaming.
- So I guess old people aren't inspired by Trump's message of To appease the wrathful gods of Wall Street, I will build a pyramid of your ancient bones.
Examples
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Despite her anger, she tried to remain calm and not appear wrathful during the discussion.
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So some people are wrathful because they get angry too easily.
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I come from a world of a wrathful god.
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More than anyone or anything else, the little girl feared this wrathful woman.
Fiction book (1998) -
Why are you wrathful with him, Sidney?
Fiction book (1998) -
The Old Testament God is wrathful.
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God's justice is never wrathful toward humans, but is always turned lovingly toward them.
Academic text (1992) -
Failure to do so risked divine abandonment or even worse, wrathful punishment.
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The rich man's suffering at the hands of a holy, just, and wrathful God magnifies the grace experienced by Abraham and Lazarus.
Blog text (21) -
It has the smell of fire and brimstone, the sound of a wrathful sermon by Cotton Mather.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
238
3.0
Very angry and ready to shout or complain
64
3.5
Full of strong, often angry feelings
46
7.9
Wanting strongly to hurt someone who hurt you
37
6.9
Wanting to harm someone because they hurt you
33
5.3
Like violent weather with dark clouds and high waves
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5.3
Very angry and showing it
1
4.8
Feeling very angry and likely to shout or lose control
1
9.9
Being very angry and blaming someone for what they did
1
3.9
Very strong and intense, often violent and out of control
1
9.9
Very angry and acting without thinking
Very angry and showing strong disapproval
Feeling very angry and showing that anger in words or actions
Very angry and likely to act violently
Antonyms
How Angry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word wrathful comes from the old English word wrath meaning 'anger' and the ending -ful meaning 'full of'. Imagine a storm 'full of' anger to remember that someone wrathful shows very strong anger.