Thesaurus
fuming
Synonyms and Antonyms of fuming
- I was fuming after losing the game by a single point
angered, angry, apoplectic, ballistic, cheesed off [chiefly British], choleric, enraged, foaming, 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
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, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, exasperated, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, inflammable, irascible, irritable, peevish, perturbed, petulant, put out, quick-tempered, snappish, testy, touchy
argumentative, belligerent, contentious, contrary, disputatious, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous
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
Synonyms and Antonyms of fuming
- he silently fumed as his ex-girlfriend danced with her new beau
smoldering (or smouldering)
bristling, flaring (up), inflaming (also enflaming)
- 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
blowing up, flaring (up), flipping (out) [slang]
blustering, carrying on, fulminating, rampaging, ranting, raving, taking on
burning, foaming, seething, smoldering (or smouldering), steaming
allaying, appeasing, pacifying, soothing
checking, choking (back), collecting, composing, containing, curbing, pocketing, reining, repressing, restraining, smothering, stifling, strangling, subduing, suppressing, swallowing
moderating, tempering, toning (down)
calming, cooling, hushing, quelling, quieting, settling, stilling
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