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| Main Entry: | irate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
| Synonyms: | angered, annoyed, enraged, furious, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irritated, livid, mad, provoked, up in arms*, wrathful, blown a gasket, exasperated, fuming, piqued, riled, steamed, ticked off, worked up, wroth |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
| Antonyms: | calm, cheerful, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | incensed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry |
| Synonyms: | at end of one's rope, buffaloed, bugged, bummed out, burned up, dogged, enraged, exasperated, fuming, furious, hacked, hot and bothered*, huffy*, indignant, infuriated, irate, ireful, mad, maddened, miffed, on the warpath, peeved, riled, rousted, rubbed the wrong way, steamed up, up in arms*, uptight*, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyous, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indignant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, annoyed, bent out of shape, boiling*, bugged, burned up, disgruntled, displeased, exasperated, fuming, furious, heated, huffy*, in a huff, incensed, irate, livid, mad, miffed, p.o.'d, peeved, piqued, provoked, resentful, riled, scornful, seeing red, up in arms*, upset, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | gleeful, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intolerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impatient, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | antipathetic, averse, biased, bigoted, communist, conservative, contemptuous, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, fanatical, fractious, hateful, illiberal, indignant, inflexible, irate, irritable, jaundiced, narrow, narrow-minded, obdurate, one-sided, racist, small-minded*, snappy, stuffy, uncharitable, unfair, unsympathetic, unwilling, upset, waspish, chauvinistic, individualistic, outraged, racialist, short-fuse, tilted, unforbearing, unindulgent, worked-up, xenophobic |
| Antonyms: | fair, impartial, patient, tolerant, unprejudiced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pissed off |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
| Synonyms: | affronted, annoyed, bent out of shape, boiling*, cross, displeased, enraged, fighting mad, fit to be tied*, fuming, furious, hopping mad, hot, huffy*, in a tizzy, incensed, inflamed, infuriated, irate, irritated, livid, mad, maddened, offended, outraged, peed, peeved off, provoked, raging, riled, sore, steamed, steamed up, steaming, storming, t'd off, tee'd off, ticked off |
* = 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: | wrathful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, displeased, enraged, furious, heated, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irate, mad, raging, ireful, on the warpath, storming |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | het up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset |
| Synonyms: | burning, hot and bothered, hot under the collar, indignant, irate, upset |
| Main Entry: | heated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, ardent, avid, bitter, excited, fervent, fervid, feverish, fierce, fiery, frenzied, furious, hectic, impassioned, indignant, intense, irate, mad, passionate, raging, stormy, tempestuous, vehement, violent, wrathful, ireful |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful |
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