Synonyms of incensed

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adjective

as in enraged

feeling or showing anger

incensed residents demanded that the police apprehend the punks who vandalized the cemetery

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

incensed

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verb (1)

past tense of incense

as in infuriated

to make angry

the insult so incensed him that he had to be restrained from hitting the guy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• infuriated
• angered
• enraged
• outraged
• annoyed
• irritated
• riled
• offended
• rankled
• maddened
• inflamed
• roiled
• ired
• aggravated
• provoked
• steamed up
• ticked off
• exasperated
• affronted
• miffed
• peeved
• madded
• vexed
• nettled
• rubbed the wrong way
• huffed
• ruffled
• piqued
• crossed
• burned (up)
• got one's goat
• embittered
• antagonized
• got
• put out
• envenomed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pleased
• delighted
• gratified
• relieved
• comforted
• consoled
• allayed
• soothed
• assuaged
• appeased
• mollified
• pacified
• calmed
• settled
• quieted
• lulled
• charmed
• placated
• captivated
• enchanted
• disarmed
• bewitched
• beguiled
• conciliated

incensed

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verb (2)

past tense of incense

as in scented

to fill or infuse with a pleasant odor or odor-releasing substance

the gift shop was heavily incensed with a cloying mixture of herbal essences

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scented
• perfumed
• odorized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deodorized
• stank up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of incensed

Adjective

An incensed Johnson marched out of his office Friday afternoon. — Stephen Groves, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026

Once in the hands of the incensed and terrified Portuguese authorities, Amador was swiftly punished. — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026

That morning, Barmore allegedly became incensed over the air conditioning being set at 70 degrees instead of 68 and again when his daughter wanted to visit him in his bedroom. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025

House Democratic Leader Karen Camper, D-Memphis, became incensed. — Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 31 Oct. 2025

Songwriters are even more incensed, having to split their declining earnings with co-writers and taking a backseat to the producers and rights-holders who are out for their own pieces of the pie. — Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

Verb

According to new reporting by MPR News, police in the city of Winona, Minnesota are incensed after their entire fleet of Flock license plate readers went missing. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026

Automatic license plate readers have been an element of law enforcement for decades, but a particular brand of surveillance cameras have recently incensed public outrage and made their way into Florida’s gubernatorial race. — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026

Eventually, the public became incensed that the queen hadn’t returned to Buckingham Palace, and also that there was no flag above the 775-room royal residence—particularly a flag at half-mast in honor of the princess’s passing. — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 28 July 2026

Perez had the ball taken from him after seven innings and only 92 pitches, which incensed fans both in Miami and beyond. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026

Newsom hailed the changes, but environmental groups are incensed at the turnabout. — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

The art world was not incensed out of love for Robert Mapplethorpe. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Egypt was also incensed that a challenge on Mohamed Salah was not penalized moments before Argentina launched the move that produced the winning goal. — Reuters, NBC news, 9 July 2026

His denunciation so incensed far-right Israelis that a number of activists were detained while protesting his son’s bar mitzvah in Jerusalem the next year, Emanuel recalled. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026