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Meaning of "well-wrought" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WELL-WROUGHT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-WROUGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Well-Wrought is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WELL-WROUGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of well-wrought in the English dictionary

The definition of well-wrought in the dictionary is shaped, formed, or decorated with skill.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-WROUGHT

well-to-do
well-trained
well-travelled
well-treated
well-tried
well-trodden
well-turned
well-understood
well-upholstered
well-used
well-versed
well-wisher
well-wishing
well-woman
well-woman clinic
well-women
well-wooded
well-worn
well-written
welladay

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-WROUGHT

aforethought
afterthought
bethought
bought
brought
caught
dreadnought
drought
forethought
fought
free thought
hard-fought
New Thought
nought
ought
overbought
second thought
sought
thought
unthought
wrought

Synonyms and antonyms of well-wrought in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «well-wrought» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-WROUGHT

Find out the translation of well-wrought to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-wrought from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «well-wrought» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

精心锻造
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bien forjado
570 millions of speakers

English

well-wrought
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अच्छी तरह से गढ़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المطاوع جيدا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хорошо кованого
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bem- feito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভালভাবে পেটা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bien forgé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan baik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gut gewirkt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

丹念に作られた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘 흥분한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apik-wrought
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

được rèn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்கு செய்யப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुशल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İyi dövme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ben battuto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrze obrobione
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добре кованого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bine forjat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλά σφυρήλατο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goed gewerk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

väl smides
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

godt smidd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-wrought

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-WROUGHT»

The term «well-wrought» is normally little used and occupies the 131.230 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-WROUGHT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about well-wrought

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-WROUGHT»

Discover the use of well-wrought in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-wrought and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
Critical analyses of ten English poems reveal changing styles from Donne to Yeats
Cleanth Brooks, 1947
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Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001.) Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn, p. 196. See for example page 200 of The Well Wrought Urn: “The relation between all the elements must be an organic one– there can be no question about that.
Graham Harman, 2012
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Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism
guage is the iconic title itself, The Well Wrought Urn. Its source is Donne's Canonization, whose poet boasts to his lover that if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no piece of chronicle we prove, We'll build in ...
Susan J. Wolfson, 1997
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The Critics who Made Us: Essays from Sewanee Review
... current faiths who assert their own vitality, they believe, by pronouncing requiescats over The Well Wrought Urn and its author. My concern is rather with the educational-critical-literary climate in which Cleanth Brooks's positions were formed ...
George Core, 1993
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A. de La Motraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into ...
ing Well wrought, mark'd as (p) ; Gronbo and Swanbo £rttclby foldngl ing to Mr. Aibohomt and have each of them one single rfammet that works about 900 Shippundsy more valuable for being well Jwtbugrr£ than for its Goodness, and mark'd ...
Aubrey de La Mottraye, 1723
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surrey
... quadrat arch in the midle whereof hangs one pinnacle perpendicular garnished in every angle with Coates of armes well wrought and richly guilt the floore is of deale boards a handsome chymny peece in the midle whereof is a well wrought ...
‎1871
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Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton
With this insistence on superiority, Brooks' elaboration of his doctrine of the well- wrought urn, as well as the poem that gives the doctrine its name, begins to sound less benign, less simple, less modest, and less separate than it initially does.
Christopher Warley, 2014
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Surrey Archaeological Collections
... quadrat arch in the midle whereof hangs one pinnacle perpendicular garnished in every angle with Coates of armes well wrought and richly guilt the floore is of deale boards a handsome chymny peece in the midle whereof is a well wrought ...
‎1871
9
The New Apologists for Poetry
See also Brooks' The Well Wrought Urn (New York, 1947), pp. 3-20, 176-225. 5 London, 1930. The marked influence of Freud upon him as well as his relativistic tendencies make Empson a far less satisfactory example, for my purposes, than ...
Murray Krieger, 1956
10
I Am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas
The title for Venturi's first book was suggested by Finkelpearl, and is derived from a passage in The Well Wrought Urn: “In other words, the poet wishes to indicate that his vision has been earned, that it can survive reference to the complexities ...
Aron Vinegar, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELL-WROUGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-wrought is used in the context of the following news items.
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The New David Foster Wallace Film Is Exactly The 'Grotesque …
Because, regardless of the actors' performances and script's well-wrought pathos, “The End of the Tour” betrays and undermines the work of the author it ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Infinitely Polar Bear: Mark Ruffalo good, daughters better
Of the categories into which Forbes' slight but well-wrought movie falls — Eccentric New Englanders, the Beat-Up '70s, Dad's a Big Goof, Everybody Loves ... «Pitch Weekly, Jul 15»
3
Sound Summit brings music back to Mount Tam
“We feel Sound Summit is a well-wrought, creative and dynamic gesture of support for a very special place in the neighborhood,” he said in a statement. “It is as ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
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Two of the Web's more rambunctious sites struggle to grow up a little
Gawker, the site that proves well-wrought gossip is catnip for the clicking finger, is more of an autocracy. The founder, Nick Denton, is known for his blisteringly ... «Newsworks.org, Jul 15»
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James Woods' 'The Nearest Thing to Life': The art of reading and living
Readers of the New Yorker will recognize his well-wrought meditations on writers from V.S. Naipaul to Penelope Fitzgerald. When not essaying, he's teaching at ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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Cara Delevingne Earns Mixed Reviews for 'Paper Towns'
The Hollywood Reporter: "Delevingne delivers sufficient dynamics to carry the early going with her character's well-wrought sense of payback and mystery, but ... «Fashionista, Jul 15»
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Review: Ashley Monroe's Songcraft Stays Sharp on 'The Blade'
Embraced by soreheads as a balm, roots rock prizes literary distinction over a well-wrought mess; it alludes to an American songbook without noting that many ... «SPIN, Jul 15»
8
The Semi-Return of Clintonomics
She said some tough stuff about income inequality and took some well-wrought shots at both Scott Walker and Jeb (!) for their respective demonstrations of fealty ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
9
Feline starlets claw at emotions
These are actual, well-wrought films. There are heart-warming documentaries, such as Amy Wynia's “Rosie,” a lovingly curated portrait of a feline life well lived, ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jun 15»
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Why our many stories matter
If you're capable of putting aside your well-wrought and sexy argument for a few moments – stepping out of it, like blood-soaked chainmail after the Crusades ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Dec 14»

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