Antonyms for rage
reɪdʒrage

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. ragenoun

   Synonyms:
   ire, fury

2. ragenoun

   To act or speak in heightened anger.

   Synonyms:
   fury, ire

3. rageverb

   To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

   Synonyms:
   fury, ire

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. rage

   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, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, 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 / 1 vote

1. ragenoun

   Antonyms:
   reason, moderation, gentleness, temperateness, calmness, quiescence, mitigation, assuagement, tranquillity, mildness, softness

   Synonyms:
   fury, rabidity, choler, indignation, frenzy, auger, ire, dudgeon, mania, passion, madness, ferocity

2. rageverb

   Antonyms:
   be calm, be composed, be peaceful

   Synonyms:
   rave, storm, fume, be furious, be violent

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Anger
   • Be
   • Desire
   • Violence

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. fury, rage, madnessnoun

   a feeling of intense anger

   "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

   Synonyms:
   fad, hydrophobia, foolishness, furiousness, hysteria, craze, vehemence, insaneness, cult, rabidness, madness, ferocity, violence, delirium, passion, fierceness, furore, rabies, fury, frenzy, lyssa, folly, craziness, lunacy, wildness, rabidity, furor

2. ragenoun

   a state of extreme anger

   "she fell into a rage and refused to answer"

   Synonyms:
   cult, fury, furore, craze, fad, madness, passion, furor

3. rage, passionnoun

   something that is desired intensely

   "his rage for fame destroyed him"

   Synonyms:
   cult, fury, heat, furore, craze, fad, mania, madness, cacoethes, love, passionateness, warmth, passion, furor

4. ragenoun

   violent state of the elements

   "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"

   Synonyms:
   cult, fury, furore, craze, fad, madness, passion, furor

5. fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rageverb

   an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

   "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"

   Synonyms:
   cult, fury, frenzy, furore, madness, craze, fad, delirium, passion, hysteria, religious cult, furor, cultus

6. ramp, rage, stormverb

   behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

   Synonyms:
   surprise, force, ramp, storm

7. rageverb

   be violent; as of fires and storms

   Synonyms:
   ramp, storm

8. rageverb

   feel intense anger

   "Rage against the dying of the light!"

   Synonyms:
   ramp, storm

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1. ragenoun

   Synonyms:
   fury, wrath, passion, vogue, mode, fashion, anger

2. rageverb

   Synonyms:
   storm, fume, rave

How to use rage in a sentence?

1. Samuel S. Janus:

   Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

2. Quentin Tarantino:

   ( Reuters/Miramax) Quentin Tarantino toldDeadlineon Monday that Quentin Tarantino did not force Uma Thurman to drive a car nor did Quentin Tarantino angrily confront Uma Thurman as Uma Thurman alleged in her Times story. Quentin Tarantino did admitthat Quentin Tarantino may have rolled Quentin Tarantino eyes and was irritated at Thurman's reservations about doing the scene. Uma Thurman said Quentin Tarantino would not take no for an answer. I ’m sure I was n’t in a rage and I was n’t livid. I did n’t go barging into Uma’s trailer, screaming at Uma Thurman to get into the car, i can imagine maybe rolling my eyes and thinking, we spent all this money taking this stick shift Karmann Ghia and changing the transmission, just for this shot.

3. John Cannon:

   We don't know if it was targeting or road rage.

4. Michael DeVito:

   Ulrich was highly intoxicated and was in a jealous rage, he banged [the chickens] on the ground to kill them and snapped the heads off.

5. Mark Naison:

   Simmering rage, latent racism is becoming more open, because a lot of people are feeling threatened.

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