Synonyms of roiling

roiling

verb

present participle of roil

1

as in swirling

to be in a state of violent rolling motion

the waters of the gulf tossed and roiled as the hurricane surged toward the shore

Synonyms & Similar Words

• swirling
• churning
• boiling
• seething
• whirling
• spinning
• stirring
• moiling
• reeling
• agitating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• calming
• abating
• subsiding

2

as in angering

to make angry

the clerk's brusque refusal of her request roiled her enough to prompt a complaint to his supervisor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angering
• infuriating
• enraging
• outraging
• inflaming
• rankling
• annoying
• irritating
• riling
• maddening
• madding
• incensing
• offending
• iring
• ticking off
• provoking
• aggravating
• steaming up
• vexing
• nettling
• ruffling
• exasperating
• rubbing the wrong way
• affronting
• huffing
• crossing
• burning (up)
• piquing
• getting one's goat
• antagonizing
• embittering
• getting
• miffing
• putting out
• peeving
• envenoming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• gratifying
• pleasing
• relieving
• delighting
• soothing
• comforting
• allaying
• consoling
• settling
• calming
• assuaging
• quieting
• appeasing
• pacifying
• placating
• charming
• conciliating
• captivating
• bewitching
• disarming
• mollifying
• enchanting
• lulling
• beguiling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of roiling

By today, regulatory and other business jitters were back roiling stocks. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026

Iran has severely curtailed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz throughout the war, roiling energy markets. — Victoria Craw, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2026

Again, that hopefully will yield a debut album that fully captures her generation’s campy disenchantment and roiling vulnerability. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

This follows an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season with only one named hurricane, Isaias, roiling the Florida panhandle. — Ava Berger, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026

Instead, the district’s growth failed to materialize and subsequent administrators made the painful decision to shutter brand-new Lincoln-Way North, roiling the district. — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Abdul el Sayed wasn’t the only progressive Democrat helped by a survey from Wedgewood, the fraudulent pollster that is roiling Michigan’s Senate race. — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2026

Something is roiling under the surface of Smallwood’s harshness. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

The development is roiling investors who were betting US and South Korean chipmakers would have a dominant market share and pricing power, and are now debating whether cheaper, efficient chips from China could spoil that outlook. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026