Synonyms 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.

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

   Antonyms:
   amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraint

   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

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

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

2. angerverb

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Emotional Arousal

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. maddennoun

   anger is an emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or something you feel has deliberately done you wrong.

   anger is a bad emotion!

   Submitted by gerwazychmielewski on January 19, 2022  

2. krodham

   Submitted by anonymous on June 10, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. angernoun

   Synonyms:
   wrath, rage, fury, resentment, indignation, exasperation, choler, bile, spleen, TEMPER, dudgeon, passion, displeasure, vexation, irritation, offence

2. angerverb

   Synonyms:
   irritate, provoke, exasperate, chafe, vex, nettle, incense, enrage, inflame, madden, infuriate, make angry

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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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "anger":

   wrath, rage, angry, fury, outrage, indignation, tantrum, cholera, furor, ire, angered, irritation, anjar, temper, angar, hatred, annoyance, resentment, mad

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1. Flavie Villanueva:

   The first time they came to me, there was nothing but tears, anguish and anger.

2. Gautama Buddha:

   Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

3. Ben Smith:

   We want to move beyond some of the divisions and some of the anger that has definitely defined the country over the past four years.

4. Shaundelle Brooks:

   He loved his family, but most of all Akilah wanted to live, he wanted to create positive change in this world. He showed compassion, not anger. He spread love, not hate.

5. Tim Walz:

   I wont patronize you as a white man about living those experiences... but I am asking you to help us, help us use humane ways to get the streets to aplace where we can restore the justice so that those who are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are heard, not those who throw fire bombs into businesses.