Adjective: wrapt
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more wrapt |
| Superlative | most wrapt |
Sample Sentences
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Lo! where the ſtripling, wrapt in wonder, roves / Beneath the precipice o'erhung with pine; […] [1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, London: […] E[dward] & C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 11:]
Adjectives inflected like wrapt
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.