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rabid
Synonyms and Antonyms of rabid
- soccer fans whose rabid enthusiasm makes them go berserk when their team wins
extreme, extremist, fanatic (or fanatical), radical, revolutionary, revolutionist, ultra
- He became rabid when the bank manager told him he would lose the family farm if he didn't pay the mortgage.
angered, angry, apoplectic, ballistic, choleric, enraged, foaming, fuming, furious, hopping, horn-mad, hot, incensed, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriate, infuriated, irate, ireful, livid, mad, outraged, rankled, riled, roiled, 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, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, exasperated, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, 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, hopping mad, hot under the collar, in a fume, in a huff, in a pet
- a rabid nationalism that led to turbulent protests
- the rabid witch hunts that occurred in Salem in 1692, when 150 people were accused of witchcraft and imprisoned
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