ˈrȯt, usu -ȯd.+V adjective
Etymology: Middle English wrought, wroght, from wrought, wroght (past participle of worchen, worken to work), from Old English geworht (past participle of wyrcan to work) — more at work
1. : created, shaped
and a young lad whose freckled face bore as … finely wrought features as one could wish to see — Sidney Lovett
2.
a. : worked into shape by artistry or effort : fashioned, formed
beautifully wrought garland of spring flowers
b. : fashioned with particular adherence to form or style
this highly wrought , artificial conversation, with its … high-piled metaphors — Virginia Woolf
the most highly wrought and finished of English elegies — Marion Tucker
3. : finished in an elaborate decorative style : embellished, embroidered, ornamented
the slippers were … curiously wrought with colored beads — William Black
the screen was … wrought with a rather florid Louis Quatorze pattern — Oscar Wilde
4. : processed for use : manufactured
a gown of wrought silk
5.
a. : beaten into shape by tools : shaped by a mechanical action (as rolling, forging, extrusion, or drawing) : hammered — used of metals
a bracelet of wrought silver
a tray of wrought copper
wrought brass and wrought bronze are less expensive than some other metals — A.H.Brownell
b. : produced by one of these methods
searched the shops for wrought work
6. : not crude or plain : finished
the wrought oaken beams — John Keats
7. : deeply stirred : possessed of an excited state of mind : unduly stimulated
when I am highly wrought , I faint — W.S.Gilbert
— often used with up
let myself get wrought up over nothing — Ellen Glasgow