Tuesday, November 26, 2019
75 Synonyms for Angry
75 Synonyms for Angry  75 Synonyms for ââ¬Å"Angryâ⬠  75 Synonyms for ââ¬Å"Angryâ⬠                                      By Mark Nichol                                            	  Are you angry? At the risk of infuriating you, or making you apoplectic or exasperated, here are dozens of words to use to describe your choleric condition more precisely:  1. Acrid: extremely harsh (also refers to an unpleasant taste or smell)  2. Acrimonious: harshly unpleasant  3. Aggravated: angrily agitated  4. Angered: made angry  5. Annoyed: angry about being disturbed or harassed  6. Antagonistic: angrily opposed  7. Antipathetic: expressing antipathy, or aggression or aversion  8. Apoplectic: violently angry, from the adjectival form of apoplexy, the former word for stroke  9. Ballistic: explosively angry, from the adjective describing projectile flight  10. Bellicose: aggressively angry, from the synonym for warlike  11. Belligerent: see bellicose  12. Bitter: harshly upset due to resentment  13. Blue in the face: see frustrated, from the idea of facial discoloration caused by extreme emotion  14. Boiling: extremely angry, with the figurative sense of being agitated like heated water  15. Bristling: defensively angry, suggestive of an animalââ¬â¢s hair bristling as it responds to a threat  16. Burning: extremely angry, from the notion of the body overheating because of the intensity of feeling  17. Caustic: cruelly angry, or sarcastic  18. Cheesed off: see frustrated (can also mean ââ¬Å"boredâ⬠ or ââ¬Å"disgustedâ⬠)  19. Choleric: easily angered  20. Churlish: disrespectfully angry  21. Cold: angry in an emotionally remote manner  22. Contrary: uncooperatively angry  23. Cool: angry but with emotions are held in check  24. Embittered: made upset  25. Enraged: violently angry  26. Exasperated: see frustrated  27. Fired up: see hot  28. Fit to be tied: extremely angry, suggesting that the person angered should be restrained  29. Foaming: so angry as to suggest insanity caused by hydrophobia (rabies), from the idea that foaming at the mouth is symptomatic of the disease  30. Frustrated: angry or upset because of obstacles or challenges  31. Fuming: extremely angry, from the association of the person with a volcano or other heated natural phenomenon  32. Furious: intensely angry  33. Going crook: losing oneââ¬â¢s temper  34. Hopping: so angry as to suggest that the person might jump up and down to express or assuage anger  35. Hopping mad: see hopping  36. Horn-mad: extremely angry  37. Hostile: actively intimidating, unfriendly, or resistant  38. Hot: angry, with the sense of physical discomfort caused by emotion  39. Hot under the collar: see hot  40. Icy: see cold  41. Incensed: see indignant  42. Indignant: angry because of a real or perceived slight or unjust attack  43. Inflamed: see hot  44. Infuriated: see furious  45. Irate: see furious  46. Ireful: see irate  47. Livid: intensely angry to the point of being unable to control oneself (livid, however, can also mean ââ¬Å"bruised,â⬠ ââ¬Å"pale,â⬠ or ââ¬Å"colorful,â⬠ with the second sense associated with pain, shock, or fear)  48. Mad: angry; this term has so many other senses and is so easily replaced by any of its many synonyms that it is all but useless except in a statement starting with ââ¬Å"Iââ¬â¢m so mad I could . . .â⬠  49. Outraged: angry about an offense  50: Perturbed: upset (also means ââ¬Å"confusedâ⬠)  51. Pissed off: angry  52. Rabid: see foaming  53: Raging: see furious  54. Rancorous: malevolently angry  55. Rankled: angry or resentful  56. Ranting: irrationally angry  57. Raving: see ranting  58. Riled: upset  59. Roiled: see riled  60: Seeing red: so angry that oneââ¬â¢s vision is blurred, or one is stimulated as a bull in a bullfight  61. Seething: repressing violent anger  62. Shirty: angry  63. Smoldering: see seething  64. Sore: see indignant  65. Soreheaded: see indignant  66. Steamed: see hot  67. Steaming: see hot  68: Storming: having a temper or an anger suggestive of stormy weather  69. Stormy: see storming  70. Ticked: angry; also ââ¬Å"ticked offâ⬠  71. Vitriolic: see caustic  72. Worked up: upset  73. Wrathful: see furious  74. Wroth: see furious  75. Wrought up: see ââ¬Å"worked upâ⬠  (This list deliberately omits annoyed and its synonyms, which are numerous enough to merit their own list.)                                          Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily!                Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:20 Great Opening Lines to Inspire the Start of Your StoryHyper and HypoEducational vs. Educative    
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