Antonyms for ire
aɪərire

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ire

   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, indignation, 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Emotion
   • Mortal Sin

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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, anger, fussiness

2. wrath, anger, ire, iranoun

   belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)

   Synonyms:
   angriness, individual retirement account, choler, anger, wrath, ira

How to use ire in a sentence?

1. Christopher Wray:

   We've seen China looking for ways to insulate their economy against potential sanctions, trying to cushion themselves from harm if they do anything to draw the ire of the international community, in our world, we call that kind of behavior a clue.

2. Eugene Robinson:

   [I was] trying not to lose my mind and avoiding the blast zone of Carlos' frequently expressed ire, while the outside world he faced saw glib and charming, those who had to work with him saw a very different face.

3. Renee Ellmers:

   Donald Bryson, North Carolina state director for Americans for Prosperity, told FoxNews.com. Renee Ellmers support for a number of spending bills and subsidies have provoked conservative ire. Renee Ellmers also faces opposition from pro-life groups unhappy at Renee Ellmers after Renee Ellmers temporarily halted and forced changes last year to a House bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks Renee Ellmers said last week Renee Ellmers was not going to be controlled by special interest groups. I absolutely refuse to feel the pressure they put on other members to vote the way they want them to vote. I don't care about the scorecards that they keep.

4. Adam Schiff:

   House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting in Washington back in March. Adam Schiff, the focus of Republicans' post-Mueller ire, says Mueller's conclusion would not affect his own committee's counterintelligence probes. ( AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) As both the special counsel and the Department of Justice have recognized, the Congress has a vital constitutional role in evaluating misconduct by the executive branch, including the president, and to assess and refine laws that address the sweeping and systematic invasion of our democracy by Russia, we therefore need these materials in order to do our job.

5. Priyank Mathur:

   This is a risky ask, when you ask someone to make a video that criticizes ISIS or some other terrorist group, that's a lot to ask because you're asking them to put themselves out there and put themselves potentially in harm's way and no one wants to attract the ire of a terrorist group like ISIS, i never really found there to be a risk in it because I'm Muslim anyways.

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