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Main Entry: resentment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hate, anger

Synonyms:

acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure, dudgeon, exacerbation, exasperation, fog, fury, grudge, huff, hurt, ill feeling, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, malice, malignity, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation, pique, rage, rancor, rise, spite, umbrage, vehemence, vexation, wrath

Antonyms:

affection, happiness, liking, love, pleasure
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Resentment.
Category: 1. Social Affections

Synonyms:

-nouns
resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation., pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling., ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility; ill blood (hate); revenge., excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums., burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words., scowl; sulks., [Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity (insult); grudge, crow to pluck, sore subject, casus belli; ill turn, outrage., Furies, Eumenides., buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles.
-verbs
resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie; breathe revenge, cut up rough., fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath., pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit., chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain., have a fling at; bear malice (revenge)., cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw., put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears., bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
-adjectives
angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross (irascible); Achillean; sulky, [more]; bitter, virulent; acrimonious (discourteous); violent., warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage., offended; waxy; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against., fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless., flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.
-adverbs
angrily; in the height of passion; in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment.
-phrases
one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Vergil]; "beware the fury of a patient man" [Dryden]; furor arma ministrat [Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Horace]; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler?"
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Main Entry: anger
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of being mad, annoyed

Synonyms:

acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blow up, cat fit, chagrin, choler, conniption, dander, disapprobation, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, hissy fit, huff, ill humor, ill temper, impatience, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, slow burn, soreness, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence

Antonyms:

agreeability, calmness, contentment, enjoyment, good nature, happiness, joy, peace, pleasantness
Main Entry: animosity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme dislike, hatred

Synonyms:

acrimony, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, bitterness, displeasure, enmity, hate, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, rancor, resentment, virulence

Antonyms:

good will, love
Main Entry: backlash
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adverse reaction

Synonyms:

backfire, boomerang, counteraction, kickback, reaction, recoil, repercussion, resentment, resistance, response, retaliation, retroaction, tangle
Main Entry: bad blood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bitterness of feeling

Synonyms:

acrimony, anger, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad chemistry, bad feeling, bad vibes, bad will, bitterness, disaccord, dislike, distrust, enmity, hard feelings, hatred, hostility, ill will, ill-disposedness, malevolence, malice, mutual hostility, nastiness, odium, oppugnancy, oppugnation, personality conflict, rancor, resentment, unfriendliness, venom
Main Entry: disaffection
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alienation, estrangement

Synonyms:

animosity, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, breach, disagreement, discontent, dislike, disloyalty, dissatisfaction, hatred, hostility, ill will, repugnance, resentment, unfriendliness

Antonyms:

attraction, happiness, harmony, pleasure
Main Entry: displeasure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unhappiness, anger

Synonyms:

annoyance, aversion, disapprobation, disapproval, discontentment, disfavor, disgruntlement, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, dissatisfaction, distaste, incensement, indignation, indisposition, irritation, offense, pique, resentment, umbrage, vexation, wrath

Antonyms:

calm, composure, delight, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction
Main Entry: dissatisfaction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: discontent, unhappiness

Synonyms:

annoyance, anxiety, aversion, boredom, chagrin, complaint, desolation, disapproval, discomfort, discouragement, disfavor, disgruntlement, disinclination, dislike, disliking, dismay, displeasure, disquiet, disrelish, distaste, distress, ennui, envy, exasperation, fretfulness, frustration, heartburn, hopelessness, indisposition, irritation, jealousy, lamentation, malcontent, malcontentment, oppression, querulousness, regret, resentment, trouble, uneasiness, weariness, worry

Antonyms:

contentment, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction
Main Entry: envy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: jealousy

Synonyms:

backbiting, coveting, covetousness, enviousness, evil eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudging, grudgingness, hatred, heartburn, ill will, invidiousness, jaundiced eye, lusting, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, opposition, prejudice, resentfulness, resentment, rivalry, spite
Notes: jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person

Antonyms:

comfort, confidence, contentedness, good will, kindness, pleasure
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