wrathとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɒθ/, /ɹɔːθ/
  • 韻: -ɒθ, -ɔːθ
  • Homophone: wroth (some speakers)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹæθ/
  • 韻: -æθ
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɹæθ/, /ɹɔθ/

名詞

wrath (usually uncountable, 複数形 wraths)

1. (formal or old-fashioned) Great anger.

   Synonyms: fury, ire

   Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 17:

     For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

2. (rare) Punishment.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 13:4:

     A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

使用する際の注意点

• The pronunciation with the vowel /æ/ is regarded as incorrect by many British English speakers.

派生語

• grapes of wrath
• wrathful

関連する語

• wroth

形容詞

wrath (comparative more wrath, superlative most wrath)

1. Wrathful; wroth; very angry.

動詞

wrath (三人称単数 現在形 wraths, 現在分詞 wrathing, 過去形および過去分詞形 wrathed)

1. (obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
   • (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Further reading

• “wrath” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.