Synonyms for resentment
rɪˈzɛnt məntre·sent·ment

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1. resentment

   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:
   anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, 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.

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1. resentment

   Synonyms:
   anger, ire, indignation, animosity

   Antonyms:
   calmness, acquiescence, toleration, mildness, endurance, forgiveness

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1. resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancournoun

   a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

   Synonyms:
   acrimony, bitterness, saddle sore, rancour, impudence, freshness, insolence, rancor, bile, thorniness, tartness, acerbity, cheekiness, impertinence, gall, jaundice, crust, bitter

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1. resentmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   indignation, anger, choler, ire, wrath, displeasure, grudge, heart-burning

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1. resentmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   dudgeon, umbrage, displeasure, grudge

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1. List of paraphrases for "resentment":

   bitterness, dissatisfaction, rancour, discontent, grudge, displeasure, indignation, exasperation, animosity, anger, antipathy

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1. Joe Holcombe:

   I don’t hold any resentment to him. I wish he had n’t of done it, but all I can say is that he is going to be rewarded for what he did – and he’s not going to like that reward, i don’t hate him by any means ; I just feel sorry for him.

2. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

   A project that is seeking, journalistically, to force us to grapple with our history can not be responsible for bad faith actors deciding they are going to whip up white resentment.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   The forces at work in the 2016 election in the United States are still with us and not only in my country but around the world, it was a perfect storm: deep currents of anger and resentment flowing through our culture. Our political press that told voters my emails were the most important story. The unprecedented intervention in our election by the FBI director. The information warfare waged from within the Kremlin.

4. Vincent Barkas:

   Unfortunately, the feet on the ground with a gun that kills a poacher is the wrong way forward. We are causing more resentment towards our wildlife and towards conservation as a whole than we are doing any good.

5. House Republicans:

   There’s a way to embrace the policies that worked during the Trump administration without getting bogged down in the divisive intra-party squabbles that have created real resentment and frustration throughout the party at a time when Republicans should be scoring easy victories up and down the ballot.