Synonyms 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.

   Synonyms:
   anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, 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:3.0 / 1 vote

1. ragenoun

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

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

2. rageverb

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

   Antonyms:
   be calm, be composed, be peaceful

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ragenoun

   Synonyms:
   fury, frenzy, FUROR, passion, madness, raving, violent anger

2. ragenoun

   Synonyms:
   extreme eagerness, vehement desire

3. ragenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] fashion, vogue, mode

4. rageverb

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ragenoun

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

2. rageverb

   Synonyms:
   storm, fume, rave

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "rage":

   anger, fury, rabies, wrath, outrage, indignation

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How to use rage in a sentence?

1. Raoul Vaneigem:

   Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

2. The Royal Society of Medicine:

   Post election violence was experienced firsthand as neighbor turned on neighbor, communities were destroyed and the media in some cases became the focus of mob rage, the deeply traumatic nature of this exposure to violence is highlighted by the fact that seven years on from the rioting and mayhem, prominent symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety remain.

3. Susana Nunez:

   Anger. Rage. Powerlessness that they could tear my daughter from my arms. Sadness, i didn't sleep. I didn't eat. I said, 'How is my daughter? What is she doing?'.

4. Andreas Lubitz:

   Psychology can explain why somebody would turn rage inward on themselves about the fact that maybe they weren't going to keep doing their job and they're upset about that and so they're suicidal, but there is no mental illness that explains why somebody then feels entitled to also take that rage and turn it outward on 149 other people who had nothing to do with the person's problems.

5. One Republican official:

   The Trump tantrum has nothing to do with check size or spending — he was fully aware of the negotiations carried out in his behalf by( chief of staff Mark) Meadows and( Treasury Secretary Steven) Mnuchin and never said peep, this is about Mitch McConnell and John Thune acknowledging the inevitable. When it comes to venting rage and seeking revenge vs. millions losing unemployment the day after Christmas and millions losing apartments and millions of small businesses going under, there is no contest : Mitch McConnell ego always comes first.