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

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

Gin up such a feeble procedural explanation for the sudden reversal that the entire sporting globe becomes incensed over the garbage-y scent of an inside job. — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

The crowd was incensed after Matheus Cunha was taken down by Kristoffer Ajer with no penalty called. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Democratic lawmakers were incensed by the OMB’s decision. — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 22 June 2026

Two of the Huddersfield players were sent off for fouling Trundle, and their manager Peter Jackson was incensed. — Stuart James, New York Times, 21 June 2026