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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 rabbiʼs 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, to-do, tempest, 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 waiterʼs 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

slow burn
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)

new wave

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 oneʼs 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 assistantʼs 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

see red

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