wrought
adjUK /ɹɔːt/ · AU, UK, NZ /ɹoːt/
Etymology 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).
1
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
- Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
- Antonyms
- unwrought
- Derived terms
- high-wrought, wrought iron, wrought-up