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wrought

/ɹɔːt/ UK
/ɹoːt/ Australia, British, New Zealand
/ɹɔt/ US
/ɹɑt/ US, cot caught merger
/ɾɔt/ Scotland
/ɾɔːt/ Wales

Sounds like rort (non-rhotic), rot (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɔːt

Where it comes from

The past participle of Middle English worchen (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked.

Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).

adjective more wrought · most wrought

Having been worked or prepared somehow. Is that fence made out of wrought iron?

Opposite: unwrought

verb

archaic, participle, past, rare simple past and past participle of work What hath God wrought?
participle, past simple past and past participle of wreak We are, however, in danger of ignoring the more fundamental lessons, forgetting the imperative to root out and to curb within our societies at every level—most importantly that of the individual—the greed, avarice, corruption and hubris which has wrought and will wreak so much havoc, not just in our

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: shaped, formed, molded, milled, made, intricately, tragedy, exquisitely, fabricated, forged, led, brought, caused, earned, generated, induced

adjective

Opposite: unwrought

Translations

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adj Having been worked or prepared somehow

Español	trabajado, preparado, labrado
Português	forjado
Français	travaillé, forgé
Deutsch	bearbeitet, gefertigt, getrieben, gehämmert
Italiano	lavorato
Русский	обрабо́танный obrabótannyj, подгото́вленный podgotóvlennyj

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@misc{wrought_2026,
  title = {wrought},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wrought},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}