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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal displeasure |
| Synonyms: | anger, annoyance, chagrin, exasperation, fury, grudge, high dudgeon, huff, indignation, injury, ire, irking, irritation, miff, nettling, offense, pique, provoking, rage, resentment, sense of injury, vexation, wrath |
| Antonyms: | happiness, like, love, pleasure |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | displeasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unhappiness, anger |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, aversion, disapprobation, disapproval, discontentment, disfavor, disgruntlement, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, dissatisfaction, distaste, incensement, indignation, indisposition, irritation, offense, pique, resentment, umbrage, vexation, wrath |
| Antonyms: | calm, composure, delight, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foliage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaves |
| Synonyms: | frondescence, greenness, growth, herbage, leafage, umbrage, vegetation, verdure |
| Main Entry: | huff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad mood |
| Synonyms: | anger, annoyance, dudgeon, miff, offense, passion, perturbation, pet*, pique, rage, snit, stew, temper, tiff, umbrage |
| Antonyms: | delight, good mood, happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incense |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very angry |
| Synonyms: | anger, ask for it, bother, disgust, egg on, enrage, exasperate, excite, fire up, get a rise out of, get under one's skin, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, mad, madden, make blood boil, make see red, provoke, rile, umbrage |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, please |
| Main Entry: | indignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger |
| Synonyms: | animus, boiling point, danger, displeasure, exasperation, fury, huff, ire, mad, miff, pique, rage, resentment, rise, scorn, slow burn, umbrage, wrath |
| Antonyms: | glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | infuriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make angry |
| Synonyms: | T-off, aggravate, anger, enrage, exasperate, incense, ire, irritate, madden, make blood boil, provoke, rile, umbrage |
| Antonyms: | make happy, please |
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