| 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: | enrage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very upset |
Synonyms: |
T-off, aggravate, anger, ask for it, exasperate, get under skin, hack*, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, make blood boil, make see red, needle, provoke, rile, steam up, umbrage, whip up |
Antonyms: |
appease, calm, compose, pacify, placate, please, soothe |
| Main Entry: | excited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inspired; upset |
Synonyms: |
aflame, agitated, animated, annoyed, aroused, awakened, beside oneself, charged, delighted, discomposed, disconcerted, disturbed, eager, enthusiastic, feverish, fired up, frantic, high*, hot and bothered, hot*, hyperactive, hysterical, in a tizzy, inflamed, juiced up, jumpy, keyed up, moved, nervous, on edge, on fire, overwrought, passionate, piqued, provoked, roused, ruffled, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, thrilled, tumultous/tumultuous, wild, wired, worked up, zipped up |
Antonyms: |
bored, calm, composed, easy-going, laid-back, unenthused, unenthusiastic, unexcited, uninspired |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | muddle, obscure |
Synonyms: |
addle, becloud, bedim, befuddle, bewilder, blind, blur, cloud, confuse, darken, daze, dim, eclipse, mist, muddy, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, puzzle, steam up, stupefy |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
Antonyms: |
clear up, explain |
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
Synonyms: |
animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, fired up, flaming, furious, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, overemotional, passionate, perfervid, powerful, profound, red-hot, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed, steamed up, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, white-hot, wild about, worked up, zealous |
Antonyms: |
apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | inflame |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anger, aggravate |
Synonyms: |
agitate, annoy, arouse, burn, disturb, embitter, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fan, fire, fire up, foment, gall, get*, grate, heat, heat up, ignite, impassion, incense, increase, infuriate, intensify, intoxicate, irritate, kindle, light, madden, provoke, put out, rile, roil, rouse, steam up, stimulate, vex, worsen |
Antonyms: |
alleviate, appease, cool, pacify, placate, put out, quench, soothe, tranquilize |
| Main Entry: | instigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence, provoke |
Synonyms: |
abet, actuate, add fuel, bring about, egg on, encourage, fire up, foment, goad, hint, impel, incite, inflame, initiate, insinuate, kindle, make waves, move, needle, persuade, plan, plot, prompt, put up to, rabble-rouse, raise, rouse, scheme, set on, spur, start, steam up, stimulate, stir up, suggest, turn on, urge, whip up, work up |
Antonyms: |
halt, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | madden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make angry |
Synonyms: |
anger, annoy, bother, craze, derange, distract, drive crazy, drive insane, drive out of mind, drive to distraction, enrage, exasperate, frenzy, incense, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, make see red, pester, possess, provoke, shatter, steam up, umbrage, unbalance, unhinge, upset, vex |
Antonyms: |
gladden, make happy |
| Main Entry: | overwrought |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted and excited |
Synonyms: |
affected, agitated, all shook up, beside oneself, crazy, distracted, emotional, excitable, fired-up, flipped out, frantic, freaked-out, high*, hot under collar, hot-and-bothered, hyper, in a state, keyed-up, nervous, neurotic, on edge, overexcited, overstrung, overworked, spent, steamed up, stirred, strung-out, tense, tired, uneasy, unstrung, uptight*, weary, wired, worked-up, worn, wound-up |
Antonyms: |
calm, collected, cool, rested, unruffled |