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Synonyms & Antonyms of rabid
1
being very far from the center of public opinion
- soccer fans whose rabid enthusiasm makes them go berserk when their team wins
Synonyms for rabid
- extreme,
- extremist,
- fanatic
- (or fanatical),
- radical,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- ultra
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2
feeling or showing anger
- he became rabid when the bank manager told him he would lose the family farm if he didn't pay the mortgage
Synonyms for rabid
- angered,
- angry,
- apoplectic,
- ballistic,
- cheesed off
- [chiefly British],
- choleric,
- enraged,
- foaming,
- fuming,
- furious,
- hopping,
- horn-mad,
- hot,
- incensed,
- indignant,
- inflamed
- (also enflamed),
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- irate,
- ireful,
- livid,
- mad,
- outraged,
- rankled,
- riled,
- riley,
- roiled,
- shirty
- [chiefly British],
- sore,
- steamed up,
- steaming,
- teed off,
- ticked,
- wrathful,
- wroth
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- 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
Phrases Synonymous with rabid
- 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
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3
marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity
- rabid opposition expressed through turbulent protests
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4
marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity
- the rabid witch hunts that occurred in Salem in 1692, when 150 people were accused of witchcraft and imprisoned
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“Rabid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabid. Accessed 23 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of rabid was in 1594
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