Antonyms for indignation
ˌɪn dɪgˈneɪ ʃənin·dig·na·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. indignation

   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:
   anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, 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:3.0 / 2 votes

1. indignation

   Antonyms:
   gratification, admiration, applause, approval, complacency

   Synonyms:
   resentment, anger, denunciation, displeasure, exasperation, ire, wrath, protestation

Matched Categories

1. • Anger

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. indignation, outragenoun

   a feeling of righteous anger

   Synonyms:
   scandal, scandalisation, outrage, scandalization

How to use indignation in a sentence?

1. Adam Smith:

   The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

2. Chief Cabinet Secretary:

   If true, the act of threat in exchange of people's lives is unforgivable and we feel strong indignation, we will make our utmost effort to win their release as soon as possible.

3. Elizabeth Gaskell:

   My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

4. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva:

   Today is the day of indignation. It's the day of a lack of democratic respect, the day of authoritarianism, i felt like a political prisoner this morning.

5. Plato:

   Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

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