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| Main Entry: | angry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mad, often extremely mad |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bitter, choleric, cross, displeased, enraged, ferocious, fierce, fiery, furious, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, irritable, irritated, offended, provoked, raging, sore, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, wrathful, affronted, antagonized, chafed, convulsed, exacerbated, exasperated, fuming, galled, ireful, maddened, nettled, outraged, piqued, resentful, riled, splenetic, storming, vexed |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous |
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful, ireful, rancorous, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| Main Entry: | enraged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | furious |
| Synonyms: | angered, angry, boiling*, incensed, inflamed, infuriated, irate, livid, mad, upset, aggravated, exasperated, fuming, pushed too far, riled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong, maleficent, no good, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fighting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, warlike |
| Synonyms: | angry, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, combative, contentious, determined, disputatious, fencing, ferocious, hostile, martial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resolute, truculent, unbeatable, up in arms*, battling, brawling, contending, disputative, hawkish, jingoistic, jousting, militaristic, ready to fight, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, under arms, warmongering, wrestling |
| Antonyms: | peaceloving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressed, distracted |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself*, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered*, hot under the collar*, hyper, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired*, worked up, zonkers |
| Notes: | frantic (from Latin phrenecticus 'frenetic') pertains to a mental state or condition, to a frame of mind, whereas that of frenetic pertains rather to a type of behavior or conduct |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, composed, docile, peaceful, tranquil |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
| Synonyms: | angry, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned*, touchy, uptight, bearish, crabbed, ireful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, temperamental |
| Synonyms: | angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the mouth*, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-tempered, impulsive, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, morose, offended, out of sorts*, pensive, petulant, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, crabbed, down in the dumps, ill-humored, in a huff, in the doldrums, moping, piqued, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peevish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, testy |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, childish, churlish, complaining, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, waspish, caviling, crabbed, cussed, fretting, grousing, growling, out-of-sorts, splenetic, tetchy, waspy, whining |
| Antonyms: | friendly, happy, pleasant, accepting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent; mad |
| Synonyms: | angry, at boiling point, bent out of shape, bent*, beside oneself*, blowing a gasket, blowing one's top, blustering, blustery, boiling mad, boiling over, enraged, fit to be tied*, frenzied, fuming, furious, going ape, incensed, infuriated, irate, mad as a hornet, on the warpath, rabid*, ranting and raving, raving, raving mad, rough, seeing red, seething, stormy, tempestuous, throwing a fit, turbulent, wild |
| Antonyms: | delighted, giddy, gleeful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spiteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, nasty |
| Synonyms: | angry, barbed, catty*, cruel, dirty, evil, hateful, ill-natured, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery*, snide, venomous, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked, accidentally on purpose, cussed, despiteful, ill-disposed, rancorous, spleenful, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | affectionate, forgiving, helpful, loving, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vehement |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate, opinionated |
| Synonyms: | angry, ardent, concentrated, delirious, desperate, eager, earnest, emphatic, enthusiastic, exquisite, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, forceful, forcible, frantic, furious, hearty, heated, hot*, impassioned, impetuous, inflamed, intense, lively, potent, powerful, pronounced, rabid, strong, terrible, vicious, violent, wild, zealous, hopped up, hyper, on the make |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, indifferent, unpassionate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | displeased |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy |
| Synonyms: | angry, annoyed, disappointed, dissatisfied, vexed |
| Main Entry: | infuriated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | furious |
| Synonyms: | angered, angry, enraged, incensed, mad |
| Main Entry: | irritated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | annoyed |
| Synonyms: | angered, angry, bothered, disturbed, provoked, troubled, irked |
| Main Entry: | fit to be tied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely angry |
| Synonyms: | angry, annoyed, boiling, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, bent out of shape, burned up, good and mad, mad as hell, outraged, pissed-off, steamed, teed off, ticked off |
| Main Entry: | hot under the collar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry |
| Synonyms: | angry, boiling, excited, het up, mad, pissed off, steaming, upset, burning with excitement |
| Main Entry: | offended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vexed |
| Synonyms: | angry, hurt, insulted, provoked, upset, exasperated, outraged |
| Main Entry: | peeved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritated |
| Synonyms: | angry, annoyed, cross, mad, upset, vexed |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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