anger

Main Entry:
anger [ang-ger]
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
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Main Entry: anger
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
acrimonious, angry, begrumpled, bitter, boiling, boiling over, burning, cantankerous, convulsed with rage, cross, diversivolent, emporté, fierce, fiery, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, foaming, foaming at the mouth, fractious, fuming, furibund, furious, glowering, horn, indignant, infuriate, iracund, irascent, irate, ireful, mad with rage, madbrained, offended, on one's high ropes, rabid, rageful, raging, relentless, savage, set against, sore, spleenful, splenetic, stomachous, sulky, surly, thrunched, umbrageous, up in arms, violent, virulent, warm, waxy, wild, worked up, wrath, wrathful, wrought, zowerswopped
Main Entry: affront
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: insult or involve in entanglement
Synonyms: abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, dispraise, dump on, encounter, face, give a zinger, give the cold shoulder, hit where one lives, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex
Notes: effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult
Antonyms: appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, 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: 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: bait
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: needle
Synonyms: anger, annoy, badger, bother, gall, harass, heckle, hound, irk, irritate, nag, persecute, provoke, tease, torment
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
Notes: to chafe means to rub until sore or worn; to chaff means to tease good-naturedly
Antonyms: make happy
Main Entry: displease
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make unhappy
Synonyms: aggravate, anger, annoy, antagonize, bother, cap, chagrin, cool, curdle, cut to the quick, disappoint, discontent, disgruntle, disgust, disoblige, dissatisfy, enrage, exasperate, fret, frustrate, gall, hurt, incense, irk, irritate, nettle, offend, perplex, pique, play dirty, provoke, put out, repel, revolt, rile, roil, sound, turn off, upset, vex, wing*, worry, zing
Antonyms: appease, calm, compose, delight, humor, make happy, please, satisfy
Main Entry: embitter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: upset, alienate
Synonyms: acerbate, acidulate, aggravate, anger, annoy, bitter, bother, disaffect, disillusion, envenom, exacerbate, exasperate, irritate, make bitter, make resentful, poison, sour, venom, worsen
Antonyms: calm, comfort, make happy, pacify
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