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rage
noun as in extreme anger
Strongest matches
animosity, bitterness, exasperation, excitement, frenzy, furor, fury, indignation, irritation, madness, mania, obsession, outburst, passion, resentment, temper, violence
Strong matches
acerbity, acrimony, agitation, apoplexy, asperity, blowup, bluster, choler, convulsion, dander, eruption, explosion, ferment, ferocity, fireworks, gall, heat, hemorrhage, huff, hysterics, ire, paroxysm, rampage, raving, spasm, spleen, squall, storm, tantrum, umbrage, uproar, upset, vehemence, wrath
Weak match
noun as in something in vogue; popular notion
Example Sentences
A tourist in Tasmania has had his leg amputated in the middle of a raging river after getting trapped between rocks during a kayaking trip with friends.
Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”
As his team hunched over computers eating takeaway pizza, he raged about the obstructionist behaviour of many of the other teams at the conference.
Wars are now raging in Gaza and Lebanon as Israel presses on with its attempts to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah.
Then let them know that you care more about their wives, daughters and mothers than they do and that you’re stepping in to shield them from all that rage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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