Synonyms for choler
ˈkɒl ərcholer

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1. cholernoun

   Synonyms:
   rage, bile, indignation, passion, yellow bile, fury, spleen, gall, ire, displeasure, anger, grudge, wrath, vexation

2. cholernoun

   Anger or irritability.

   Synonyms:
   spleen, rage, passion, indignation, anger, fury, wrath, ire, vexation, bile, displeasure, yellow bile, gall, grudge

3. cholernoun

   One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.

   Synonyms:
   vexation, ire, grudge, indignation, yellow bile, rage, bile, anger, passion, displeasure, wrath, spleen, fury, gall

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1. choler

   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, 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.

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1. irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, cholernoun

   an irritable petulant feeling

   Synonyms:
   ire, temper, crossness, yellow bile, petulance, surliness, biliousness, excitability, fussiness, peevishness, pettishness, crabbiness, snappishness, irritability, fretfulness, anger, crabbedness

2. anger, choler, irenoun

   a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

   Synonyms:
   ira, irritability, yellow bile, angriness, petulance, wrath, crossness, fretfulness, peevishness, anger, ire, fussiness

3. yellow bile, cholernoun

   a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger

   Synonyms:
   irritability, fretfulness, yellow bile, petulance, crossness, peevishness, anger, ire, fussiness

Matched Categories

1. • Humor
   • Ill Humor

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1. cholernoun

   Synonyms:
   bile

2. cholernoun

   Synonyms:
   anger, wrath, ire, fury, rage, spleen, exasperation

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