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ire - 16 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, displeasure, exasperation, fury, indignation, passion, rage, wrath, boiling point, conniption, conniption fit, more heat than light, slow burn |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness |
| Main Entry: | anger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being mad, annoyed |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blow up*, chagrin, choler, dander*, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, huff, impatience, indignation, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence, cat fit, conniption, disapprobation, hissy fit, ill humor, ill temper, infuriation, irascibility, slow burn, soreness |
| Antonyms: | calmness, contentment, enjoyment, good nature, happiness, joy, peace, agreeability, pleasantness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enrage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very upset |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, anger, exasperate, hack*, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, needle, provoke, rile, umbrage, whip up*, T-off, ask for it, get under skin, make blood boil, make see red, steam up* |
| Antonyms: | appease, calm, compose, pacify, placate, please, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exasperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset, provocation |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, anger, annoyance, bother, displeasure, exacerbation, fury, ire, irritant, irritation, nuisance, passion, pest, pique, plague, rage, resentment, vexation, wrath, besetment, botheration |
| Antonyms: | calming, calmness, comfort, ease, pleasing, soothing, placation |
| Main Entry: | fury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, wrath |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, energy, ferocity, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rage, rise, severity, sore, stew*, storm*, turbulence, vehemence, violence, boiling point, conniption, fierceness, impetuosity, rabidity, rampancy, savagery, slow burn, tempestuousness |
| Antonyms: | calm, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incense |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very angry |
| Synonyms: | anger, ask for it, bother, disgust, egg on*, enrage, exasperate, excite, fire up, get a rise out of, get under one's skin, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, mad, madden, make blood boil, make see red, provoke, rile, umbrage |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, please |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger |
| Synonyms: | animus, danger, displeasure, exasperation, fury, huff*, ire, mad, miff*, pique, rage, resentment, rise, scorn, umbrage, wrath, boiling point, slow burn |
| Antonyms: | glee, happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infuriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make angry |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, anger, enrage, exasperate, incense, ire, irritate, madden, provoke, rile, umbrage, T-off, make blood boil |
| Antonyms: | please, make happy |
| Main Entry: | madden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make angry |
| Synonyms: | anger, annoy, bother, craze, derange, distract, enrage, exasperate, frenzy, incense, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, pester, possess, provoke, shatter, umbrage, unbalance, unhinge*, upset, vex, drive crazy, drive insane, drive out of mind, drive to distraction, make see red, steam up* |
| Antonyms: | gladden, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resentment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate, anger |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure, dudgeon, exacerbation, exasperation, fog, fury, grudge, huff, hurt, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, malice, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation, pique, rage, rancor, rise, spite, umbrage, vehemence, vexation, wrath, bad feeling, ill feeling, malignity |
| Antonyms: | affection, happiness, liking, love, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | umbrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal displeasure |
| Synonyms: | anger, annoyance, chagrin, exasperation, fury, grudge, huff, indignation, injury, ire, irritation, miff*, offense, pique, provoking, rage, resentment, vexation, wrath, high dudgeon, irking, nettling, sense of injury |
| Antonyms: | happiness, like, love, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anger |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, asperity, dander, displeasure, exasperation, flare-up, fury, hate, huff, indignation, ire, irritation, mad, madness, offense, passion, rage, resentment, rise, stew*, storm, temper, vengeance, boiling point, conniption, hatefulness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong emotion |
| Synonyms: | affection, agony, anger, animation, ardor, dedication, devotion, distress, dolor, eagerness, ecstasy, excitement, feeling, fervor, fire, fit, flare-up, frenzy, fury, heat, hurrah, indignation, intensity, ire, joy, misery, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, rage, rapture, resentment, sentiment, spirit, storm, suffering, temper, transport, vehemence, warmth, wrath, zeal, zest, affectivity |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness |
| 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*, indignation, ire, irritation, madness, mania, obsession, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rampage, raving, resentment, spasm, spleen, squall, storm, tantrum, temper, umbrage, uproar, upset, vehemence, violence, wrath, hysterics, wingding |
| Antonyms: | glee, happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | angriness; bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, dander*, fit, furor, fury, heat*, impatience, ire, irritability, irritation, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, rage, resentment, sensitivity, stew*, sullenness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, tiff, wax, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, excitability, fretfulness, grouchiness, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, irascibility, pugnacity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, surliness, tizzy, touchiness |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | offense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, hard feelings |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, displeasure, explosion, fit, flare-up*, huff, indignation, ire, miff, needle*, outburst, pique, resentment, scene, tantrum, umbrage, wrath, conniption, tizzy, wounded feelings |
| Antonyms: | happiness, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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