Synonyms of fuming

fuming 1 of 2

adjective

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

I was fuming after losing the game by a single point

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

fuming

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verb

present participle of fume

1

as in steaming

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger

he silently fumed as his ex-girlfriend danced with her new beau

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in storming

to express one's anger usually violently

when she found out her driver's license was being suspended, she fumed, throwing papers across the room and shouting at the top of her lungs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• storming
• raging
• bristling
• rampaging
• running amok
• steaming
• ranting
• seething
• raving
• fulminating
• making a scene
• blustering
• fretting
• foaming
• smoldering
• flaring (up)
• stewing
• flipping (out)
• carrying on
• taking on
• burning
• blowing up
• chafing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• checking
• soothing
• containing
• collecting
• restraining
• stifling
• suppressing
• composing
• swallowing
• curbing
• smothering
• appeasing
• repressing
• choking (back)
• strangling
• allaying
• subduing
• pacifying
• tempering
• moderating
• relaxing
• reining
• cooling
• pocketing
• easing
• settling
• calming
• quieting
• toning (down)
• quelling
• hushing
• stilling
• letting up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fuming

Verb

During the top of the fifth inning of the Cubs’ 9-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night at Wrigley Field, Thornton was removed from the game and was fuming. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Keeley and Rebecca, on the other hand, are fuming at the IMPLIED declaration that Rebecca is some sort of woman hating monster. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

And when the police station was still functioning weeks later, Curtin was fuming. — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026

Jenny was left fuming after the stunning admission and eventually stormed off into her tent. — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

After taking the first set 6-3, Džumhur was fuming when a let was not called by umpire Greg Allensworth on one of his serves during the second set. — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 30 June 2026

Trump has been fuming about its revelations, and a parlor game around who-leaked-what has been underway in DC since excerpts first appeared in the Times. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026

Johnson and other Republican leaders soon faced a room of fuming members who do not typically cause headaches for leadership or hold up votes. — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 1 May 2026

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was left fuming at full-time after watching his side get the penalty decision overturned after a VAR review. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026