| Main Entry: | anger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone mad; become mad |
Synonyms: |
acerbate, affront, aggravate, agitate, annoy, antagonize, arouse, bait, blow up, boil over, boil, bristle, burn, burn up, chafe, craze*, cross, displease, egg on, embitter, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fret, gall, get mad, get on one's nerves, goad, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, lose one's temper, madden, make sore, miff, nettle, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, raise hell, rankle, rant, rave, rile, ruffle, seethe, steam up, stew, stir up, tempt, umbrage, vex |
Antonyms: |
calm, forbear, make happy, quiet, soothe |
| Main Entry: | bristle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become upset, excited |
Synonyms: |
be angry, be infuriated, be maddened, blow up, boil, boil over, bridle, flare, flare up, fume, get one's dander up, rage, rise, ruffle, see red, seethe, spit*, stand on end, swell |
| Main Entry: | flare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erupt, blow |
Synonyms: |
blaze, boil over, break out, burn, burn up, burst, dart, dazzle, explode, fire up, flash, flicker, flutter, fume, glare, glow, go off, lose control, rant, seethe, shimmer, shoot, waver |
| Notes: | flair is a natural talent or distinctive and stylish elegance while a flare (noun) is a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate - flare (verb) means to burn brightly or to erupt or intensify suddenly |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrong, offend, abuse |
Synonyms: |
affront, aggrieve, boil over, burn up, defile, deflower, desecrate, do violence to, fire up, force, ill- treat, incense, infuriate, injure, insult, jar, kick up a row, madden, make hit the ceiling, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, oppress, persecute, raise Cain, rape, ravage, ravish, reach boiling point, scandalize, shock, spoil, violate, whip up |
Antonyms: |
delight, make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be angry |
Synonyms: |
be beside oneself, be furious, be uncontrollable, blow a fuse, blow one's top, blow up, boil over, bristle, chafe, champ at bit, erupt, fly off the handle, foam at the mouth, fret, fulminate, fume, go berserk, have a fit, have a tantrum, let off steam, look daggers, make a fuss over, overflow, rail at, rampage, rant, rant and rave, rave, roar, scold, scream, seethe, snap at, splutter, steam, storm, surge, tear, throw a fit, work oneself into sweat, yell |
Antonyms: |
be happy |
| Main Entry: | lose one's temper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get angry and lose control |
Synonyms: |
become irate, blow one's top, blow up, boil over |
| Main Entry: | anger |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
acrimonious, angry, begrumpled, bitter, boiling, boiling over, burning, cantankerous, convulsed with rage, cross, diversivolent, emporté, fierce, fiery, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, foaming, foaming at the mouth, fractious, fuming, furibund, furious, glowering, horn, indignant, infuriate, iracund, irascent, irate, ireful, mad with rage, madbrained, offended, on one's high ropes, rabid, rageful, raging, relentless, savage, set against, sore, spleenful, splenetic, stomachous, sulky, surly, thrunched, umbrageous, up in arms, violent, virulent, warm, waxy, wild, worked up, wrath, wrathful, wrought, zowerswopped
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