Wrathen

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. An archaic adjective describing someone who is filled with intense anger or fierce indignation
2. Old-fashioned term for a person or mood overcome by strong rage and fury
3. Obsolete word meaning full of wrath, showing deep and violent displeasure

Etymology: "Wrathen" is an archaic adjective meaning angry or wrathful, and it is simply the old form of "wrath" with the suffix "-en" attached. Its ancestry runs through Old English "wrǣth", meaning anger, which is in turn linked to the adjective "wrath" and to older Germanic words for twisting or being crooked. The "-en" ending is a common Middle English and early modern pattern for turning a noun or adjective into an adjective with the sense "made of" or "having the quality of," as in "golden" or "wooden." Here the ending attaches to "wrath" to give a near-synonym of "wrathful." It survived mostly in poetry and older religious and literary English, where writers liked its heavier, more archaic sound.

Synonyms: angry, wrathful, wroth

Antonyms: calm, placid, serene