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fury
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | "harsh, domineering woman" |
| Synonyms: | battleaxe, fishwife, fury, hag, harpy, harridan, nag, scold, shrew, termagant, virago |
| Main Entry: | fervency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion |
| Synonyms: | ardor, emotion, enthusiasm, fervor, fire, fury, gusto, heart, intensity, vehemence, zeal, zest |
| Notes: | the intensity of heat or feeling can be described as fervency (from Latin fervere 'boil'); an instance of this heat or feeling is fervor |
| Main Entry: | fierceness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ferocity |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, brutality, cruelness, depth, extreme, ferment, ferociousness, fervency, fervor, fury, intensity, pitch, savagery, severity, vehemence, vehemency, viciousness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | irascibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascibleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | rancorousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resentment |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure, dudgeon, embitterment, exacerbation, exasperation, fog*, fury, gall, grudge, huff, hurt, ill feeling, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, malice, malignity, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation, pique*, rage, rancor, resentfulness, rise, spite, umbrage, vehemence, vexation, virulence, virulency, wrath |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resentfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resentment |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure, dudgeon, embitterment, exacerbation, exasperation, fog*, fury, gall, grudge, huff, hurt, ill feeling, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, malice, malignity, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation, pique*, rage, rancor, rancorousness, rise, spite, umbrage, vehemence, vexation, virulence, virulency, wrath |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | short fuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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