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Wrothful

Definition: Wrothful

Wrothful

Adjective

1. Vehemently incensed and condemnatory; "they trembled before the wrathful queen"; "but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wrothful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)


Synonyms: Wrothful

Synonyms: wrathful (adj), wroth (adj). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Wrothful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: worthful.

Words within the letters "f-h-l-o-r-t-u-w"

-2 letters: fourth.

-3 letters: flour, flout, fluor, forth, froth, routh, rowth, throw, thurl, whorl, whort, woful, worth, wroth.

-4 letters: flow, fort, foul, four, fowl, frow, furl, holt, hour, howf, howl, hurl, hurt, loft, loth, lour, lout, rolf, rotl, rout, ruth, thou, thro, thru, tofu, tolu, tour, trow, turf, wolf, wort.

-5 letters: flu, foh, for, fou, fro.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wrothful


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 72 6F 74 68 66 75 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100110 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#114 &#111 &#116 &#104 &#102 &#117 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0072 006F 0074 0068 0066 0075 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5784818674728778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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