infuriate

Synonyms

anger, enrage, incense, inflame (also enflame), ire, madden, outrage, rankle, rile, roil, steam up, tick off;

Antonyms

delight, gratify, please;

Near Antonyms

allay, assuage, relieve;

comfort, console, soothe;

appease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate;

calm, lull, quiet, settle;

beguile, bewitch, captivate, charm, disarm, enchant;

Related Words

affront, aggravate, annoy, burn (up), cross, exasperate, get, huff, irritate, miff, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, put out, ruffle, vex;

antagonize, embitter, envenom;

Phrases

get one's goat, rub the wrong way;

Synonyms

angered, angry, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, fuming, furious, hopping, horn-mad, hot, incensed, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriated, irate, ireful, livid, mad, outraged, rabid, rankled, riled, roiled, sore, steamed up, steaming, teed off, ticked, wrathful, wroth;

Antonyms

delighted, pleased;

Near Antonyms

accepting, accommodating, obliging;

agreeable, amenable, complaisant;

amicable, cordial, friendly;

content, happy, satisfied;

empathetic, sympathetic, tolerant, understanding;

calm, pacific, peaceable, placid, serene, tranquil, unembittered;

affable, amiable, easygoing, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, kind, pleasant, sweet;

Related Words

ranting, raving, stormy;

boiling, bristling, bristly, burning, cross, huffy, passionate, seething, sizzling, smoldering (or smouldering), worked up, wrought (up);

acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bitter, embittered, inimical, malevolent, piqued, rancorous, resentful, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive, virulent, vitriolic;

antisocial, cold, cool, disagreeable, disapproving, distant, frigid, icy, ill-tempered, sorehead (or soreheaded), sulky, unfriendly, unpleasant;

aggravated, annoyed, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, exasperated, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, peevish, perturbed, petulant, put out, quick-tempered, snappish, testy, touchy;

argumentative, belligerent, contentious, contrary, disputatious, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous;

Phrases

bent out of shape, blue in the face, fit to be tied, hopping mad, hot under the collar, in a fume, in a huff, in a pet;