Synonyms of foaming

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adjective

ˈfō-miŋ 

as in ballistic

feeling or showing anger

was so upset that he was really foaming

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ballistic
• angry
• indignant
• enraged
• mad
• outraged
• angered
• furious
• infuriated
• rabid
• infuriate
• steaming
• apoplectic
• sore
• hot
• passionate
• irate
• fuming
• inflamed
• choleric
• bent out of shape
• livid
• wrathful
• blue in the face
• hot under the collar
• in a fume
• hopping
• incensed
• irritable
• in a pet
• hopping mad
• in a huff
• wroth
• boiling
• cheesed off
• annoyed
• riled
• ireful
• fit to be tied
• horn-mad
• roiled
• shirty
• going crook
• steamed up
• ranting
• seething
• bristling
• virulent
• ticked
• rankled
• cross
• raving
• exasperated
• teed off
• aggravated
• vitriolic
• unpleasant
• burning
• riley
• antagonistic
• acrid
• icy
• bristly
• malevolent
• spiteful
• bilious
• smoldering
• acrimonious
• vengeful
• stormy
• vindictive
• cold
• antipathetic
• sizzling
• disagreeable
• embittered
• worked up
• rancorous
• bitter
• distant
• inflammable
• dyspeptic
• antisocial
• fretful
• frigid
• petulant
• inimical
• sulky
• huffy
• perturbed
• resentful
• peevish
• belligerent
• disapproving
• unfriendly
• wrought (up)
• churlish
• testy
• pugnacious
• snappish
• irascible
• cantankerous
• quarrelsome
• cool
• touchy
• sorehead
• crabby
• grouchy
• bearish
• ornery
• querulous
• grumpy
• contrary
• disputatious
• argumentative
• contentious
• fussy
• cranky
• ill-tempered
• ill-humored
• piqued
• put out
• quick-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• delighted
• content
• agreeable
• pleased
• accommodating
• cordial
• friendly
• complaisant
• amenable
• angerless
• sympathetic
• happy
• tolerant
• calm
• amicable
• obliging
• placid
• satisfied
• understanding
• sweet
• pleasant
• peaceable
• empathetic
• kind
• pacific
• tranquil
• serene
• amiable
• genial
• good-natured
• affable
• easygoing
• unembittered
• good-tempered

foaming

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verb

present participle of foam

as in steaming

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger

the old man foamed and raged when they told him he would have to give up the farm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• steaming
• raging
• boiling
• storming
• burning
• shaking
• seething
• fuming
• agitating
• sizzling
• fulminating
• raving
• rankling
• ranting
• seeing red
• bristling
• smoldering
• inflaming
• convulsing
• roiling
• stewing
• chafing
• flaring (up)
• fretting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of foaming

Adjective

Look for scrub-free foaming bathroom cleaners that are labeled as safe for your surface, or try one of the methods below. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2026

One way to help keep your skin barrier intact is to use a creamy moisturizing cleanser instead of a foaming cleanser. — Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025

Verb

The 4-year-old girl was foaming at the mouth and unconscious when the man pulled her from the water, prompting him to call 911 and start CPR, the report stated. — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026

Holding a cup in the air the man aims a hot stream of foaming milk into a stainless steel tumbler sitting inside a steel davara that rests on the counter. — Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026