wrathful
Seething with rage
Wrathful means full of wrath—intensely angry or vengeful.
The word carries a biblical or literary tone, suggesting righteous fury or divine punishment: a wrathful God, wrathful retribution.
In everyday speech, it sounds deliberately dramatic or archaic.
Someone wrathful isn't just annoyed; they're consumed by anger.
Extremely, intensely provoked
- infuriatedExtremely angered
- incensedExtremely angry
- irateExtremely angry
- furiousExtremely angry
livid · seething · fuming · raging · apoplectic · indignant · resentful · exasperated
Prone to sudden detonation
- volcanicOf fiery mountain origin
- thunderousExtremely loud, resounding
- tempestuousWildly agitated or volatile
- tumultuousViolently agitated or disturbed
stormy · fiery · blazing · burning · smoldering · flaring · boiling · violent
Wanting to harm back
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- reprisalPunitive action in return
payback · avenger · nemesis · grudge · comeuppance · punishing · divine punishment · smiting
enraged
Extremely, intensely provoked
- infuriatedExtremely angered
- incensedExtremely angry
- irateExtremely angry
furious · livid · seething · fuming · raging · apoplectic · indignant · resentful · exasperated · irritated
explosive
Prone to sudden detonation
- volcanicOf fiery mountain origin
- thunderousExtremely loud, resounding
- tempestuousWildly agitated or volatile
tumultuous · stormy · fiery · blazing · burning · smoldering · flaring · boiling · violent · ferocious
vengeful
Wanting to harm back
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
reprisal · payback · avenger · nemesis · grudge · comeuppance · punishing · divine punishment · smiting · reckoning
- dramatic tonesintense, tense, suspenseful, ominous, foreboding
- ragerage, fury, enraged, furious, livid
- fiercebrutal, violent, savage, ferocious, fierce
- irritabilitycranky, grouchy, grumpy, irritated, annoyed
- divine attributesomnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, eternal, infinite
wrathfulgentle
Soft and kind
mild · meek · easygoing · good-natured · good-tempered