Another word for anger
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Noun
A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility
- Anger; wrath.
- The state of being irate.
- Anger aroused by something perceived as unjust, mean, or unworthy.
- Anger; irritability.
- One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess; yellow bile.
- The quality and condition of being bilious.
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Verb
To cause to feel or show anger
- To incite to anger or resentment:
- To stir to action or feeling:
- To give rise to; bring about:
- To make angry; irritate.
- To cause (someone) to go mad; drive to madness.
- To become infuriated.
- To make furious; enrage.
- Furious.
- To cause to be extremely angry; infuriate.
- To put into a rage; infuriate.
- To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
- To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
- To consume fuel:
See also:To be or become angry
- The vapor phase of water.
- A mist of cooling water vapor.
- Pressurized water vapor used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical power.
- To churn and foam as if boiling.
- To be in a state of turmoil or ferment:
- To be violently excited or agitated:
- Violent, explosive anger.
- A fit of anger.
- Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
- Vapor, gas, or smoke, especially if irritating, harmful, or strong.
- A strong or acrid odor.
- A state of resentment or vexation.
- A colloidal dispersion of a gas in a liquid or solid medium, such as shaving cream, foam rubber, or a substance used to fight fires. A foam may be produced, especially on the surface of a liquid, by agitation or by a chemical reaction, such as fermentation.
- Any of various light, porous, semirigid or spongy materials, usually the solidified form of a liquid full of gas bubbles, used as a building material or for thermal insulation or shock absorption, as in packaging.
- Frothy saliva produced especially as a result of physical exertion or a pathological condition.
- A sudden outbreak of flame or light:
- An outburst or eruption:
- A recurrence, especially of a disease or condition:
- To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space:
- To burst violently as a result of internal pressure.
- To shatter with a loud noise:
- To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
- To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
- To consume fuel:
- A stiff hair.
- A stiff hairlike structure:
- To stand stiffly on end like bristles:
- (intransitive) To boil to such an extent as to overflow its container.
- (idiomatic, of anger, etc.) To reach the point where aggressive action is taken.
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Another word for anger
Noun
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- An infectious viral disease occurring in dogs, characterized by loss of appetite, a catarrhal discharge from the eyes and nose, vomiting, fever, lethargy, partial paralysis caused by destruction of myelinated nerve tissue, and sometimes death.
- A similar viral disease of cats characterized by fever, vomiting, diarrhea leading to dehydration, and sometimes death.
- Any of various similar mammalian diseases.
- A state of agitation or irritation.
- Temper or anger:
- A bitter, alkaline, brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow fluid that is secreted by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum and aids in the emulsification, digestion, and absorption of fats.
- Bitterness of temper; ill humor; irascibility.
- Either of two bodily humors, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
- A gradually increasing sense or show of anger:
- A fit of violent emotion, such as anger or panic.
- Anger or panic expressed verbally loudly and with overt bodily gestures.
- To be the proper size and shape for:
- To cause to be the proper size and shape:
- To measure for proper size:
- The act of aggravating or the state of being aggravated.
- A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble.
- Exasperation.
- A state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity; a feeling of wounded pride.
- To cause to feel resentment or indignation.
- To provoke; arouse:
- Outrageous insolence; effrontery:
- Bitterness of feeling; rancor.
- Something bitter to endure:
- A fit of anger or annoyance; a pique:
- To puff; blow.
- To make noisy, empty threats; bluster.
- A large, highly vascular lymphoid organ, lying in the human body to the left of the stomach below the diaphragm, serving to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes.
- A homologous organ or tissue in other vertebrates.
- This organ conceived as the seat of emotions or passions.
- The act or an instance of exasperating.
- The state of being exasperated; frustrated annoyance.
- The state of being peevish.
- The quality of being fretful
- A sullen, angry, or indignant humor:
- The property of being petulant.
- A fit of bad temper.
- Moral disapproval; condemnation.
- Offense or resentment:
- Shadow or shade:
- Trees or foliage affording shade.
- A state of violent mental agitation or wild excitement.
- Temporary madness or delirium.
- A mania; a craze.
- The act or an instance of exciting.
- The condition of being excited.
- Something that excites:
- The act of agitating or the state of being agitated.
- Extreme emotional disturbance; perturbation.
- The stirring up of public interest in a matter of controversy, such as a political or social issue.
- Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury:
- Intense force or great power, as in natural phenomena:
- Extreme or powerful emotion or expression:
- Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.
- The condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor:
- Interference in the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure.
- The act of annoying or the state of being annoyed.
- A cause of irritation or vexation; a nuisance.
- The condition of being vexed; annoyance:
- A source of irritation or annoyance:
- The quality or condition of being impatient.
- The act of irritating:
- The condition of being irritated; vexation:
- A source of irritation:
- The condition or fact of being displeased; dissatisfaction.
- Discomfort, uneasiness, or pain.
- An injurious offense.
- The quality of being irascible; irritability of temper.
- An act of extreme violence or viciousness:
- Something that is grossly offensive to decency, morality, or good taste:
- Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act, or an instance of this:
- Indignation or ill will stemming from a feeling of having been wronged or offended.
- Intense animosity or hostility.
- The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity.
- A hostile act.
- Acts of war; overt warfare.
- Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred.
- A hostile feeling or act.
- Bitter, sharp animosity, especially as exhibited in speech or behavior.
- Anger aroused by something perceived as unjust, mean, or unworthy.
- Anger; wrath.
- To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate:
- To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading:
- To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
- Anger; irritability.
- One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess; yellow bile.
- The quality and condition of being bilious.
- suffering or agony, as of a martyr
- an account of this
- the sufferings of Jesus, beginning with his agony in the garden of Gethsemane and continuing to his death on the Cross
- Violent anger; rage.
- A fit of anger:
- Violent or frenzied action:
- Violent, explosive anger.
- A fit of anger.
- Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
- Forceful, often vindictive anger.
- Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger.
- Wrathful.
Verb
To arouse (someone) to anger
- A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff.
- A petty quarrel or argument; a tiff.
- To cause to become offended or annoyed.
- To become steamy.
- To become coated with condensation. To fog up.
- (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed
- To destroy by burning.
- To anger; to annoy.
- To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate:
- To set afire; light.
- To incite; arouse.
- To make luminous and glowing.
- To anger or irritate.
- To stir up (liquid); roil.
- A state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity; a feeling of wounded pride.
- To cause to feel resentment or indignation.
- To provoke; arouse:
- To arouse to passionate feeling or action:
- To make more violent; intensify:
- To cause (the skin) to redden or grow hot, as from strong emotion or stimulants.
- To cause displeasure, anger, resentment, or wounded feelings in:
- To be displeasing or disagreeable to:
- To result in displeasure:
- An act of extreme violence or viciousness:
- Something that is grossly offensive to decency, morality, or good taste:
- Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act, or an instance of this:
- To incite to anger or resentment:
- To stir to action or feeling:
- To give rise to; bring about:
- To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed.
- To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
- To become mentally deranged or obsessed.
- To make bitter in flavor.
- To arouse bitter feelings in:
- To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.
- To increase the gravity or intensity of:
- A strip of frilled or closely pleated fabric used for trimming or decoration.
- A ruff on a bird.
- An irregularity or a slight disturbance of a surface:
- a complete medical study of a patient, including a thorough examination, laboratory tests, a survey of the patient's case history, etc.
- an unwanted mark on a printed page caused by the rising of spacing material
- To arouse strong feeling in:
- To arouse (someone) sexually.
- To elicit or arouse (a reaction or emotion, for example):
- Any of various plants of the genus Urtica, having toothed leaves, unisexual apetalous flowers, and stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact.
- Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants.
- To sting with or as if with a nettle.
- To wear away or irritate by rubbing or friction:
- To annoy; vex:
- To warm by rubbing, as with the hands.
- A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.
- An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
- To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.
- Outrageous insolence; effrontery:
- Bitterness of feeling; rancor.
- Something bitter to endure:
- To irritate, bother, or frustrate:
- To cause perplexity in; baffle:
- To cause difficulty or trouble to:
- To cause persistent irritation or resentment:
- To feel or express irritation or resentment about something:
- To become sore or inflamed; fester:
- To be vexed or troubled; worry.
- To be worn or eaten away; become corroded.
- To move agitatedly.
- To cause to be extremely angry; infuriate.
- An upright post with a transverse piece near the top, on which condemned persons were executed in ancient times.
- The cross upon which Jesus was crucified.
- A crucifix.
- Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals.
- Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose.
- An enticement, temptation, or provocation:
- To insult intentionally, especially openly.
- To meet defiantly; confront:
- To meet or encounter (another) face to face.
- To cause to move with violence or sudden force.
- To upset; disturb:
- To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; discuss or debate.
- To cause (someone) to feel impatient or angry; annoy:
- To make sore or inflamed:
- To cause a physiological response to a stimulus in (a cell, body tissue, or organism).
- To cause irritation to (another); make somewhat angry.
- To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.
- To cause (someone) to be active, attentive, or excited:
- To stimulate sexual desire in.
- To give rise to (a feeling, for example); stir up:
- To put into a rage; infuriate.
- To make angry; irritate.
- To cause (someone) to go mad; drive to madness.
- To become infuriated.
- To make furious; enrage.
- Furious.
To become angry
- (idiomatic) to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.
- To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become explosively angry or very cross.
Synonym Study
- Wrath implies deep indignation expressing itself in a desire to punish or get revenge
- Ire , chiefly a literary word, suggests a show of great anger in acts, words, looks, etc.
- Fury implies a frenzied rage that borders on madness
- Rage suggests a violent outburst of anger in which self-control is lost
- Indignation implies righteous anger aroused by what seems unjust, mean, or insulting
- Anger is broadly applicable to feelings of resentful or revengeful displeasure
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