| Main Entry: | asperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harshness; bad temper |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, churlishness, crabbiness, crossness, difficulty, disagreeableness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, moroseness, peevishness, roughness, sharpness, sourness, sullenness, tartness |
Antonyms: |
calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | acerbity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitterness of taste |
Synonyms: |
acidity, asperity, astringency, mordancy, sourness, tartness |
Antonyms: |
mellowness, mildness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | acrimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty behavior, speech |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, animosity, antipathy, asperity, astringency, belligerence, bitterness, churlishness, crankiness, harshness, ill will, irascibility, malevolence, malice, mordancy, peevishness, rancor, rudeness, sarcasm, spite, tartness, unkindness, virulence |
Antonyms: |
civility, courtesy, diplomacy, flattery, kindness, politeness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, seriousness, solemnity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency |
Antonyms: |
blandness, calmness, gentility, meekness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | bitterness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agony |
Synonyms: |
acrimoniousness, anguish, asperity, distress, grievousness, harshness, hostility, mordancy, pain, painfulness, sarcasm, venom, virulence |
Antonyms: |
contentment, geniality, happiness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | fury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, wrath |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, acrimony, asperity, boiling point, conniption, energy, ferocity, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, impetuosity, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rabidity, rage, rampancy, rise, savagery, severity, slow burn, sore, stew, storm*, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, violence |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
Antonyms: |
calm, happiness, peace |
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
Synonyms: |
Herculean task, accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, rotten luck, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, tough break, tough luck, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, uphill battle, vicissitude, want, worry |
Antonyms: |
advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
| Main Entry: | inequality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prejudice; lack of balance |
Synonyms: |
asperity, bias, contrast, difference, discrimination, disparity, disproportion, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, diversity, imparity, incommensurateness, injustice, irregularity, one-sidedness, partisanship, preferentiality, roughness, unequivalence, unevenness, unfairness, unjustness, variation |
Antonyms: |
balance, equality, evenness, similarity |
| Main Entry: | predicament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult situation |
Synonyms: |
Catch-22, asperity, bad news, bind*, circumstance, clutch, condition, corner*, crisis, deadlock, deep water, dilemma, drag*, emergency, exigency, fix*, hang-up, hardship, hole, hot water, imbroglio, impasse, jam*, juncture, large order, lot, mess*, muddle, pass, perplexity, pickle, pinch, plight, position, posture, puzzle, quagmire, quandary, rigor, rough go, scrape*, soup, spot*, state*, strait, tall order ticklish spot tight situation trouble, vicissitude |
Antonyms: |
fix, good fortune, solution |
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anger |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, acrimony, agitation, animosity, apoplexy, asperity, bitterness, blowup, bluster, choler, convulsion, dander, eruption, exasperation, excitement, explosion, ferment, ferocity, fireworks, frenzy, furor, fury, gall, heat*, hemorrhage, huff, hysterics, indignation, ire, irritation, madness, mania, obsession, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rampage, raving, resentment, spasm, spleen, squall, storm, tantrum, temper, umbrage, uproar, upset, vehemence, violence, wingding, wrath |
Antonyms: |
glee, happiness |