Definitions for high-wrought

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Spelling: [hahy-rawt]
IPA: /ˈhaɪˈrɔt/

High-Wrought is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in high-wrought (-gghhhiortuw).

Definitions for high-wrought

adjective

  1. highly agitated; overwrought.

Origin of high-wrought

First recorded in 1595-1605

Examples for high-wrought

The death of Wallenstein does not cause tears; but it is perhaps the most high-wrought scene of the play.

The author proceeds to depicture our present condition in the high-wrought strains common to his party.

An expression of high-wrought energy, mingled with uneasiness, sat on the faces of the ministers.

She understood not his high-wrought scruples, his self-deluding belief.

Nothing in all history has approached the high-wrought intensity and brilliancy of the political life of Athens.

These principles were not flashes of a high-wrought imagination; they were practical.

But this high-wrought brilliancy, this unceasing point, soon fatigue.

He lacked altogether the fire, high-wrought nobility of sentiment, and sense of form essential for tragic art.

Our author is not true to nature—he is extravagant, high-wrought.

It is fine as a poem: it is finer as a piece of high-wrought eloquence.

Word Value for high-wrought
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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