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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | furious |
| Synonyms: | bent out of shape, bent*, beside oneself, boiling, browned off, bummed out, corybantic, crazed, demented, desperate, enraged, fierce, fit to be tied, foaming at the mouth, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fuming, hacked, hopping mad, in a towering rage, incensed, infuriated, insane, irate, irrational, livid, maddened, maniac, on the warpath, rabid, rage, raging, smoking, steamed, unreasonable, up in arms, vehement, vicious, violent, wrathful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | angry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mad, often extremely mad |
| Synonyms: | affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, chafed, choleric, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exacerbated, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, ireful, irritable, irritated, maddened, nettled, offended, outraged, piqued, provoked, raging, resentful, riled, sore, splenetic, storming, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, vexed, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous |
| Main Entry: | heated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, ardent, avid, bitter, excited, fervent, fervid, feverish, fierce, fiery, frenzied, furious, hectic, impassioned, indignant, intense, irate, ireful, mad, passionate, raging, stormy, tempestuous, vehement, violent, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
| Synonyms: | angry, bearish, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | wrathful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, displeased, enraged, furious, heated, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irate, ireful, mad, on the warpath, raging, storming |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleased |
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