What are some opposite words for anger?
Antonyms for anger
ˈæŋ gəran·ger
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term anger.
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
anger
Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion,"
Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.Antonyms:
amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraintSynonyms:
animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrathPreposition:
Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
angernoun
Antonyms:
peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, appeasement, forgiveness, goodwill, patience, forbearance, reconciliation, conciliatoriness, mildnessSynonyms:
ire, incentment, vexation, grudge, pique, exasperation, indignation, enmity, displeasure, irritation, passion, spleen, gall, resentment, rage, animosity, fury, choler, wrathangerverb
Antonyms:
to appease, compose, forbear, allay, soothe, calm, conciliate, healSynonyms:
enrage, vex, kindle, fret, ruffle, chafe, infuriate, exasperate, provoke, irritate, incense, wound, inflame, imbitter
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Princeton's WordNet
anger, choler, irenoun
a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
Synonyms:
ira, irritability, yellow bile, angriness, choler, petulance, wrath, crossness, fretfulness, peevishness, ire, fussinessanger, angrinessnoun
the state of being angry
wrath, anger, ire, iraverb
belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms:
angriness, individual retirement account, choler, wrath, ire, iraangerverb
make angry
"The news angered him"
Synonyms:
see redanger, see redverb
become angry
"He angers easily"
Synonyms:
see red
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
angernoun
Synonyms:
indignation, fury, rage, wrath, exasperation, dudgeon, ire, animosity, umbrage, resentment, passion, choler, displeasure, vexation, grudge, pique, flare-up, spleen, tiff, fume, offense, frenzy, tantrum, temperangerverb
Synonyms:
enrage, incense, irritate, displease, ruffle, offend, exasperate, infuriate, madden, inflame, vex, provoke
How to use anger in a sentence?
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
I ’d say I’ve got a little bit better anger management, i have n’t punched anybody or broken any rakes recently.
They know the seriousness of the situation and the possible consequences, and they don't want the media coverage to bring any kind of extra damage, later, as the situation gets worse, if the people are actually affected with their jobs, with prices ... that may become real anger, and if the media do anything to stir up that kind of anger it will cause some kind of very bad consequences.
Just ask former President Hillary Clinton how questions about the mishandling of classified information can impact the prospects of a campaign. It’s a non ideological issue that resonates with voters across the spectrum. Biden's ability to weather the storm will determine not only the prospect of his 2024 chances, but also the remainder of his first term. it depends on the quantity and depends on the content of the documents. But what it does do is it increases the laugh track sound at Mar-a-Lago because it just reduces, for many people, the anger about Trump and his documents and makes it easier for Biden to be criticized.
The basic thing American football is doing for (us) Nigerians as youths is that it controls aggression, we have lots of people that are really angry and if they can channel that anger to playing a sport I don't think we will have any issue with security in Nigeria.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#370 | love | |
#1720 | peace | |
#4766 | charity | |
#7314 | anger | |
#7387 | calm | |
#10278 | patience | |
#11834 | reconciliation | |
#11997 | heal | |
#13859 | goodwill | |
#15356 | forgiveness | |
#16080 | compose | |
#33091 | soothe | |
#50293 | forbearance | |
#52299 | gentleness | |
#62793 | appeasement | |
#66494 | allay | |
#74912 | leniency | |
#90962 | forbear | |
#105279 | peacefulness | |
#150294 | conciliate | |
#155933 | mildness | |
#238542 | amiability | |
#243923 | lenity |
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