Antonyms for anger
ˈæŋ gəran·ger

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1. angerverb

   Pain or stinging.

   You anger too easily.

   Synonyms:
   angry, get

2. angerverb

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, irritate, vex, displease, enrage, annoy, infuriate, grill

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 5 votes

1. 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-restraint

   Synonyms:
   animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrath

   Preposition:
   Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. angernoun

   Antonyms:
   peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, appeasement, forgiveness, goodwill, patience, forbearance, reconciliation, conciliatoriness, mildness

   Synonyms:
   ire, incentment, vexation, grudge, pique, exasperation, indignation, enmity, displeasure, irritation, passion, spleen, gall, resentment, rage, animosity, fury, choler, wrath

2. angerverb

   Antonyms:
   to appease, compose, forbear, allay, soothe, calm, conciliate, heal

   Synonyms:
   enrage, vex, kindle, fret, ruffle, chafe, infuriate, exasperate, provoke, irritate, incense, wound, inflame, imbitter

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Emotional Arousal

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. 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, fussiness

2. anger, angrinessnoun

   the state of being angry

   Synonyms:
   angriness, choler, wrath, ire, ira

3. 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, ira

4. angerverb

   make angry

   "The news angered him"

   Synonyms:
   see red

5. anger, see redverb

   become angry

   "He angers easily"

   Synonyms:
   see red

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1. 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, temper

2. angerverb

   Synonyms:
   enrage, incense, irritate, displease, ruffle, offend, exasperate, infuriate, madden, inflame, vex, provoke

How to use anger in a sentence?

1. Piers Morgan:

   Viewers want to see passion, they want to see anger, they want to see focus.

2. Jeffrey Neslund:

   There's going to be anger and outrage and justifiably so, i think the indictment should come out to explain to the public that the authorities have done the right thing and the officer is charged.

3. Debra Rivera:

   [He] drives by my house all hours of the day to check where I am. He is upset I am now married and don’t want to be with him. He has been physical in the past, pulled a gun on me … I know he has anger toward me and in past has caused physical pain to me.

4. Oscar Sterner:

   Dijana Djokovic is a millionaire scumbag who has rightly incurred the anger of a lot of people in Australia, dijana Djokovic can't be bothered to get vaccinated to protect the people around Dijana Djokovic.

5. Firdausi:

   If thou desirest that the pure in heart should praise thee, lay aside anger; be not a man of many words; and parade not thy virtues in the face of others.

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