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Raging
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raging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent; mad |
| Synonyms: | angry, at boiling point, bent out of shape, bent*, beside oneself, blowing a gasket, blowing one's top, blustering, blustery, boiling mad, boiling over, enraged, fit to be tied, frenzied, fuming, furious, going ape, incensed, infuriated, irate, mad as a hornet, on the warpath, rabid*, ranting and raving, raving, raving mad, rough, seeing red, seething, stormy, tempestuous, throwing a fit, turbulent, wild |
| Antonyms: | delighted, giddy, gleeful, happy |
* = 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: | blustery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy |
| Synonyms: | gusting, gusty, howling, inclement, raging, roaring, rough, tempestuous, turbulent, violent, wild, windy |
| Antonyms: | calm, still |
| Main Entry: | boiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angered |
| Synonyms: | angry, enraged, fuming, furious, incensed, indignant, infuriated, mad, raging |
| Antonyms: | happy |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | at the boiling point, bursting, charged, consequential, convulsive, detonating, detonative, ebullient, eruptive, fiery, forceful, frenzied, fulminant, fulminating, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | feral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untamed |
| Synonyms: | animal, brutal, ferocious, fierce, raging, savage, tameless, uncultivated, undomesticated, wild |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | flaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, blazing, brilliant, conflagrant, fiery, flaring, glowing, ignited, in flames, raging, red, red-hot |
| Main Entry: | flaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry, vehement |
| Synonyms: | ardent, aroused, blazing, bright, burning, fervent, frenzied, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, raging, red-hot, scintillating, vivid, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | gleeful, happy, joyful, pleased |
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