Synonyms of steaming

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adjective

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

she was steaming after hearing that she was being slandered by someone who had once been her best friend

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• ballistic
• indignant
• enraged
• furious
• mad
• infuriated
• outraged
• angered
• infuriate
• hot
• sore
• foaming
• fuming
• rabid
• passionate
• bent out of shape
• hot under the collar
• irate
• in a pet
• in a huff
• livid
• inflamed
• apoplectic
• blue in the face
• hopping mad
• boiling
• wrathful
• incensed
• hopping
• annoyed
• in a fume
• fit to be tied
• irritable
• choleric
• riled
• cheesed off
• ireful
• wroth
• steamed up
• roiled
• going crook
• shirty
• horn-mad
• seething
• ticked
• sizzling
• burning
• aggravated
• smoldering
• rankled
• teed off
• bristling
• cross
• exasperated
• ranting
• riley
• unpleasant
• virulent
• cold
• worked up
• stormy
• acrid
• icy
• raving
• vitriolic
• frigid
• bristly
• malevolent
• antagonistic
• vengeful
• spiteful
• distant
• acrimonious
• vindictive
• disagreeable
• wrought (up)
• sulky
• embittered
• rancorous
• resentful
• huffy
• inflammable
• bilious
• inimical
• disapproving
• testy
• dyspeptic
• bitter
• antisocial
• petulant
• antipathetic
• cool
• unfriendly
• belligerent
• perturbed
• peevish
• fretful
• cantankerous
• churlish
• irascible
• snappish
• grumpy
• pugnacious
• crabby
• grouchy
• touchy
• ornery
• cranky
• contentious
• fussy
• contrary
• querulous
• bearish
• piqued
• ill-tempered
• quarrelsome
• argumentative
• put out
• sorehead
• disputatious
• ill-humored
• quick-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• delighted
• content
• pleased
• agreeable
• accommodating
• amenable
• friendly
• cordial
• happy
• complaisant
• angerless
• satisfied
• obliging
• sympathetic
• amicable
• calm
• tolerant
• understanding
• sweet
• pacific
• pleasant
• placid
• kind
• serene
• tranquil
• empathetic
• peaceable
• amiable
• genial
• good-natured
• affable
• easygoing
• unembittered
• good-tempered

steaming

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verb

present participle of steam

as in boiling

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger

the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boiling
• raging
• burning
• storming
• foaming
• seething
• sizzling
• fuming
• shaking
• agitating
• rankling
• smoldering
• ranting
• seeing red
• fulminating
• raving
• bristling
• stewing
• roiling
• inflaming
• flaring (up)
• chafing
• convulsing
• fretting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of steaming

Verb

Channel 4’s website doesn’t currently offer any episodes for steaming on demand. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026

Kitchens with Vietnamese roots began dishing up teriyaki alongside steaming bowlfuls of pho. — Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026

This kitchen workhorse has nine cooking functions, including everything from slow-cooking chili to steaming vegetables. — Brooke Knappenberger, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2026

Shawn, his parents, and the stranger were sitting around the dining table, their bowls of rice steaming before them, when the knock came. — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Exhibiting a pile of hot, steaming garbage might have been more transgressive than showing these sculptures. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Airing garments out, steaming them or spot-treating stains can stretch the time between cycles. — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026

Instead, try airing garments out, steaming them or spot-cleaning small stains. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026

In the scene, Brunson is steaming his blue Knicks jersey while Hargitay steams a dress for the show. — Jason Jones, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026