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riled
Synonyms and Antonyms of riled
- the woman was obviously riled, as she kept throwing things
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, rabid, rankled, riley, roiled, shirty [chiefly British], 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, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, exasperated, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, inflammable, 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, going crook [Australian & New Zealand], hopping mad, hot under the collar, in a fume, in a huff, in a pet
Synonyms and Antonyms of riled
- one sure way to rile me is to keep yelling for me
aggravated, annoyed, ate, bothered, bugged, burned (up) (or burnt (up)), chafed, exasperated, frosted, galled, got, grated, griped, hacked (off), irked, irritated, itched, narked [British], nettled, peeved, persecuted, piqued, put out, rasped, ruffled, spited, vexed (also vext)
inflamed (also enflamed), provoked, roused
badgered, baited, bullyragged (also ballyragged), deviled (or devilled), hagrode, harassed, harried, pestered, plagued, teased
angered, antagonized, enraged, incensed, infuriated, maddened, rankled, roiled
agitated, discomforted, discomposed, disquieted, distressed, exercised, freaked (out), fretted, perturbed, undid, unhinged, unsettled, upset, worried
- her husband isn't easily riled, but once he is, he stays that way for days
angered, enraged, incensed, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriated, ired, madded, maddened, outraged, rankled, roiled, steamed up, ticked off
affronted, aggravated, annoyed, burned (up) (or burnt (up)), crossed, exasperated, got, huffed, irritated, miffed, nettled, offended, peeved, piqued, provoked, put out, ruffled, vexed (also vext)
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