WRATHFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrathful mean? 

• WRATHFUL (adjective)
  The adjective WRATHFUL has 1 sense:

1. vehemently incensed and condemnatory

  Familiarity information: WRATHFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRATHFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vehemently incensed and condemnatory

Synonyms:

wrathful; wroth; wrothful

Context example:

but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)

 Context examples 

This but served to make the god more wrathful.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

No wrathful Macedonia broke its surface nor blackened the sky with her smoke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Here is to thee, lad, and may we be good comrades to each other! But, hola! what is it that ails our friend of the wrathful face?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Jo pulled her hair again with a wrathful tweak.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The gloomy taint that was in the Murdstone blood, darkened the Murdstone religion, which was austere and wrathful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When he left the car, he strode along the sidewalk as a wrathful man will stride, and he rang the Morse bell with such viciousness that it roused him to consciousness of his condition, so that he entered in good nature, smiling with amusement at himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Again the tiny point of black projected itself through the wrathful blaze a couple of points off our port-bow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His free nature asserted itself, and he showed his teeth and snarled fearlessly in the face of the wrathful god.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And then, where a vagrant shaft of sunlight struck the ocean and turned its surface to wrathful silver, I caught a small black speck thrust skyward for an instant and swallowed up.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)