Synonyms of wrathful

wrathful

adjective

ˈrath-fəl 

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

in a wrathful voice she demanded to know what had happened

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• indignant
• enraged
• mad
• outraged
• infuriated
• angered
• furious
• ballistic
• infuriate
• passionate
• rabid
• sore
• irate
• irritable
• ireful
• choleric
• incensed
• annoyed
• inflamed
• apoplectic
• hot
• fuming
• livid
• in a huff
• hot under the collar
• wroth
• riled
• hopping mad
• steaming
• foaming
• bent out of shape
• fit to be tied
• blue in the face
• enflamed
• in a fume
• in a pet
• exasperated
• vengeful
• aggravated
• horn-mad
• cheesed off
• going crook
• vindictive
• malevolent
• spiteful
• rankled
• shirty
• roiled
• hopping
• seething
• steamed up
• embittered
• ticked
• antagonistic
• resentful
• unpleasant
• virulent
• boiling
• vitriolic
• stormy
• riley
• teed off
• huffy
• bristling
• sulky
• acrimonious
• antisocial
• icy
• irascible
• cross
• disagreeable
• smoldering
• ranting
• rancorous
• burning
• petulant
• peevish
• bristly
• smouldering
• antipathetic
• unfriendly
• distant
• inimical
• acrid
• belligerent
• disapproving
• sizzling
• frigid
• bilious
• fretful
• cantankerous
• grumpy
• bitter
• raving
• snappish
• worked up
• wrought (up)
• cold
• pugnacious
• dyspeptic
• ill-tempered
• grouchy
• perturbed
• churlish
• ornery
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• inflammable
• testy
• crabby
• cranky
• contrary
• contentious
• ill-humored
• touchy
• disputatious
• argumentative
• bearish
• cool
• quick-tempered
• fussy
• sorehead
• soreheaded
• piqued
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pleased
• accepting
• delighted
• friendly
• agreeable
• amenable
• complaisant
• happy
• sympathetic
• accommodating
• cordial
• amicable
• content
• satisfied
• angerless
• obliging
• empathetic
• calm
• tolerant
• serene
• amiable
• peaceable
• sweet
• pleasant
• placid
• understanding
• tranquil
• good-natured
• kind
• pacific
• affable
• genial
• easygoing
• unembittered
• good-tempered

Examples of wrathful in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ants’ ears hurt with each bullet fired from wrathful machine guns. —Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2023

So for the benefit of everyone who has to work with MRI, here is a devotional litany which might just keep your scanner from getting wrathful at the crucial moment. —Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010

What comes next might have been Logan’s raging-on-the-heath moment, the embittered cry of an alienated patriarch, but instead of wrathful he is uncharacteristically resigned. —Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023

Like Hotei, Daikokuten underwent significant transformations in Japan, from a wrathful protector to a jolly god of wealth. —Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023