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offended - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: offended
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vexed
Synonyms: angry, hurt, insulted, provoked, upset, exasperated, outraged
Main Entry: offend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: displease, insult
Synonyms: affront, aggrieve, anger, annoy, antagonize, disgust, disoblige, distress, disturb, exasperate, fret, gall, horrify, hurt, irritate, jar, miff, nauseate, nettle, outrage, pain, pique, provoke, repel, repulse, rile, shock, sicken, sin, slight, slur, snub, sting, transgress, trespass, upset, vex, wound, zing*, be disagreeable, disgruntle, turn one off
Antonyms: compliment, please
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: dissatisfied
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discontented, unhappy
Synonyms: annoyed, bothered, complaining, crabby*, critical, disaffected, disappointed, disgruntled, displeased, envious, faultfinding, fretful, frustrated, grumbling, grumpy*, insatiable, jaundiced, jealous, malcontent, offended, picky, plaintive, querulous, sulky, sullen, unsatisfied, begrudging, ennuied, fed-up, fretting, griping, grudging, irked, kvetching, malcontented, not satisfied, put-out, sniveling, unappeased, unassuaged, unfulfilled, ungratified, unsated, vexed
Notes: only a person can be dissatisfied while an abstract thing can be unsatisfied (hunger)
unsatisfied implies that a wish, need, or expectation that previously existed has not been satisfied; dissatisfied implies no such prior existence, but simply registers a failure to be satisfied
Antonyms: contented, fulfilled, happy, pleased, satisfied, gratified
Main Entry: huffy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: angry, in a bad mood
Synonyms: angered, annoyed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, disgruntled, fractious, grumpy, hurt, insulted, irritable, miffed, moody, offended, peeved, peevish, petulant, provoked, put out*, querulous, short, snappish, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, waspish, crabbed, exasperated, huffish, irked, moping, nettled, pettish, piqued, resentful, riled, stewed, vexed
Antonyms: cheerful, delighted, happy, joyful
Main Entry: hurt
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: physically or mentally injured
Synonyms: aggrieved, burned, cut, damaged, distressed, disturbed, harmed, hit, impaired, indignant, miffed, mutilated, offended, pained, put away, rueful, sad, shot, sore, stricken, struck, suffering, tender, unhappy, wounded, aching, agonized, all torn up, battered, bleeding, bruised, buffeted, busted up, contused, crushed, disfigured, grazed, in pain, lacerated, marred, mauled, nicked, piqued, resentful, scarred, scraped, scratched, shook, tortured, umbrageous, warped
Antonyms: healthy, pleased, well, comforted, cured, healed, ok, remedied
Main Entry: miffed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: displeased
Synonyms: annoyed, disgruntled, irritated, offended, pained, peeved, put out, upset, chagrined, irked, nettled, piqued, resentful, riled, vexed
Antonyms: pleased
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
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
Main Entry: shocked
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: startled
Synonyms: aghast, offended, stunned, upset, amazed, appalled, astonished, astounded, dismayed
Main Entry: cool
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aloof, disapproving
Synonyms: annoyed, apathetic, distant, frigid, impertinent, impudent, indifferent, insolent, lukewarm, offended, offhand, reserved, solitary, standoffish, unapproachable, uncommunicative, unenthusiastic, unfriendly, uninterested, unresponsive, unsociable, withdrawn, incurious, offish, procacious, unwelcoming
Antonyms: friendly, kind, responsive, warm, approving
Main Entry: livid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extremely angry
Synonyms: beside oneself, black*, boiling, enraged, flaming, furious, hot*, incensed, indignant, infuriated, mad, offended, exasperated, fuming, outraged
Antonyms: cheerful, happy
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attack with words
Synonyms: backbite, bad-mouth, bash, belittle, berate, calumniate, cap*, castigate, cut down*, decry, defame, derogate, discount, insult, knock*, minimize, nag, offend, oppress, persecute, pick on, put down*, reproach, revile, ride*, run down*, scold, signify, slam*, slap*, smear*, sound*, trash*, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, zing*, blow off*, cuss out, cut to the quick, do a number on, dump on, give a black eye, hurl brickbat, rag on, rip up, sling mud, swear at, tear apart
Antonyms: acclaim, adulate, approve, commend, compliment, praise
Main Entry: affront
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: insult or involve in entanglement
Synonyms: abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, encounter, face, give the cold shoulder*, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex, dispraise, dump on, give a zinger, hit where one lives
Antonyms: appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe
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: antagonize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause problem; oppose
Synonyms: alienate, anger, annoy, counteract, estrange, insult, irritate, neutralize, offend, repel, struggle, work against
Antonyms: agree, aid, help
Main Entry: break
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: violate law
Synonyms: breach, contravene, disobey, disregard, infringe, offend, transgress, violate, infract, renege on
Antonyms: agree, obey
Main Entry: chafe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: annoy
Synonyms: abrade, anger, annoy, bother, exasperate, exercise, fret, fume, gall, grate, harass, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, itch, offend, provoke, rage, rasp, rub, ruffle, scrape, scratch, vex, worry
Antonyms: make happy
Main Entry: commit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: perform an action
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, complete, contravene, do, enact, execute, offend, perpetrate, pull, pull off*, scandalize, sin, transgress, trespass, violate, wreak, effectuate, go for broke, go in for, go out for
Antonyms: cease, desist, end, idle, loaf, rest, stop, wait
Main Entry: contravene
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go against, contradict
Synonyms: abjure, breach, break, combat, counteract, cross, defy, disaffirm, disobey, encroach, exclude, fight, gainsay, hinder, impugn, infringe, interfere, interpose, intrude, negate, offend, oppose, overstep, refute, reject, repudiate, resist, spurn, thwart, transgress, traverse, trespass, violate, conflict with, infract
Antonyms: agree, aid, allow, approve, assent, assist, concur, consent, endorse, help, permit, uphold
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