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rage

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of rage

1 a state of wildly excited activity or emotion

found her at home in a rage of scrubbing and cleaning in preparation for the rabbi's visit

Synonyms of rage

agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, hysteria, rampage, uproar

Words Related to rage

chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil

bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, tempest, to-do, tumult

Near Antonyms of rage

calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness

2 an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something

boiling with rage at the waiter's insult, he demanded to see the manager

Synonyms of rage

anger, angriness, birse [chiefly Scottish], choler, furor, fury, indignation, irateness, ire, lividity, lividness, mad, madness, mood [archaic], outrage, spleen, wrath, wrathfulness

Words Related to rage

aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation

acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, biliousness, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, empoisonment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor

envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment

malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol

belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, crankiness, disputatiousness, hot-headedness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, orneriness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness

blowup, flare, flare-up, outburst

chafe, dander, dudgeon, huff, pet, rise, ruffle, temper

air rage, road rage

delirium, heat, passion, warmth

Phrases Synonymous with rage

Near Antonyms of rage

calmness, forbearance, patience

Antonyms of rage

delight, pleasure

3 a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time

there was time when playing with Frisbees was all the rage

Synonyms of rage

buzz, chic, craze, dernier cri, enthusiasm, fad, fashion, flavor, go, hot ticket, last word, latest, mode, sensation, style, ton, trend, vogue

Words Related to rage

nine days' wonder (also nine day wonder)

crush, infatuation

fervor, passion

furor, fuss, hullabaloo, to-do, uproar

bandwagon, crusade, cult, movement

novelty, wrinkle

caprice, fancy, whim

Near Antonyms of rage

classic, standard

4 archaic a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life

the king's last years were spent in a lonely rage

Synonyms of rage

aberration, dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania

Words Related to rage

neurosis, psychosis

instability, irrationality, unreasonableness

delirium, frenzy, hysteria

hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia

senile dementia

delusion, hallucination

monomania, obsession, phobia

abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness

Near Antonyms of rage

lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness

normality, soundness

Antonyms of rage

mind, saneness, sanity

Synonym Discussion of rage

anger, ire, rage, fury, indignation, wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger, the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity.

- tried to hide his anger

ire, more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling.

- cheeks flushed with ire

rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion.

- shook with rage
- could not contain his fury

indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful.

- a comment that caused general indignation

wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge.

- I feared her wrath if I was discovered

rage

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of rage

1 to express one's anger usually violently

the series of bad calls prompted the coach to rage about the refereeing

Synonyms of rage

bristle, fume, storm

Words Related to rage

blow up, flare (up), flip (out) [slang]

bluster, carry on, fulminate, rampage, rant, rave, take on

burn, foam, seethe, smolder (or smoulder), steam

chafe, fret, stew

Phrases Synonymous with rage

make a scene, run amok (or run amuck)

Near Antonyms of rage

allay, appease, pacify, soothe

check, choke (back), collect, compose, contain, curb, pocket, rein, repress, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, subdue, suppress, swallow

moderate, temper, tone (down)

ease, let up, relax

calm, cool, hush, quell, quiet, settle, still

2 to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger

still raging about his assistant's burnt pies, the pastry cook forgot to add the egg whites to his cake batter

Synonyms of rage

boil, burn, foam, fume, rankle, seethe, sizzle, steam, storm

Words Related to rage

fulminate, rant, rave

smolder (or smoulder)

bristle, flare (up), inflame (also enflame)

chafe, fret, stew

agitate, convulse, roil, shake

Phrases Synonymous with rage

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