wrath
Burning, righteous anger
Wrath is intense, often righteous anger—the kind associated with divine punishment or moral outrage.
It carries more weight than simple anger, suggesting fury that demands retribution: the wrath of God, incur someone's wrath.
Wrath appears in formal or literary contexts and in phrases like grapes of wrath.
The adjective is wrathful.
Intense, violent anger
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- lividExtremely angry or discolored
- fumingExtremely angry, visibly so
- outrageFierce moral indignation
indignation · seething · incensed · enraged · furious · frenzy · tantrum · explosion
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- smiteStrike with force
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
revelation · hellfire · brimstone · plagues · flood · punishment · righteous · holy
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- grudgePersistent resentment toward someone
- spitePetty malicious intent
- maliceIntent to cause harm
- animosityActive, bitter hostility
hostility · hate · scorn · acrimony · rancor · venom · ill-will · smoldering
Penalty for an offense
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
reprisal · justice · comeuppance · avenger · nemesis · consequences · reckoning · karmic
rage
Intense, violent anger
outrage · indignation · seething · incensed · enraged · furious · frenzy · tantrum · explosion · eruption
judgment
Reasoned decision-making capacity
apocalypse · revelation · hellfire · brimstone · plagues · flood · punishment · righteous · holy · almighty
bitterness
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
animosity · hostility · hate · scorn · acrimony · rancor · venom · ill-will · smoldering · festering
punishment
Penalty for an offense
retaliation · reprisal · justice · comeuppance · avenger · nemesis · consequences · reckoning · karmic · deserved
wrathcalm
Free from agitation
serenity · tranquility · calmness · peace · composure
wrathforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
mercy · pardon · clemency · forbearance · absolution
- wrath of GodSupreme being's anger
- divine wrathSacred punishment from above
- Grapes of WrathDepression-era migrant novel
- Day of WrathProphesied final judgment
- wrath of AchillesLegendary warrior's devastating anger