Synonyms of fuming

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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

As the cameras zoom in on a fuming Jerry Jones and the guys in the booth note that the title drought is now in its 30th year, many of us at home will indulge in a little taste of schadenfreude. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026

After a full week of women athletes fuming at Sydney Sweeney for, apparently, setting women's sports back decades with her naked gambling ad, Sophie Cunningham has set the record straight. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

The timing of such decisions has cast a cloud of uncertainty over the sport just seven weeks out from the beginning of the regular season, and coaches involved are either fuming or biting their lips until there’s more clarity. — Cj Moore, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Amtrak plans for a 24/7 maintenance facility near Rate Field have Bridgeport residents fuming mad. — Chris Tye, CBS News, 8 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

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