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. Neda Gould:

   To better understand the process of forgiveness, it might be useful to step back and look at the process of holding on to anger, anger is a form of stress, and so when we hold on to anger it is as though we are turning on the body's stress response, or fight or flight response, chronically. We know that turning on this response chronically leads to wear and tear on the body.

2. Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga:

   Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

3. Lesley McSpadden:

   He just spoke out of anger. It's one thing to speak, and it's a different thing to act. He did not act. He just spoke out of anger, when you're that hurt and the system has did you this wrong, you may say some things as well. We've all spoke out of anger before.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   What I'm suggesting is that what Trump has done with some success has taken that anger, taken those fears -- which are legitimate -- and converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims.

5. David Pilgrim:

   Funneling anger is risky business. Anger is a powerful fuel, and one could argue that much social change has resulted in no small part because of angry voices. In my half century of living, however, I have seen too many activists become frustrated and worn out—made callous by failed attempts to make change, with their idealistic passion devolving into seething anger, or worse, thick hatred.