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Synonyms & Antonyms of ballistic
feeling or showing anger
- she went ballistic when she discovered her brother reading her e-mail
Synonyms for ballistic
- angered,
- angry,
- apoplectic,
- cheesed off
- [chiefly British],
- choleric,
- enraged,
- foaming,
- fuming,
- furious,
- hopping,
- horn-mad,
- hot,
- incensed,
- indignant,
- inflamed
- (also enflamed),
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- irate,
- ireful,
- livid,
- mad,
- outraged,
- rabid,
- rankled,
- riled,
- riley,
- roiled,
- shirty
- [chiefly British],
- sore,
- steamed up,
- steaming,
- teed off,
- ticked,
- wrathful,
- wroth
Words Related to ballistic
- 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
Phrases Synonymous with ballistic
- bent out of shape,
- blue in the face,
- fit to be tied,
- going crook
- [Australian & New Zealand],
- hopping mad,
- hot under the collar,
- in a fume,
- in a huff,
- in a pet
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The first known use of ballistic was in 1764
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