Word Meanings - RAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.

Additional info about word: RAGE

1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne. 2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton. 3. A violent or raging wind. Chaucer. 4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. Syn. -- Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAGE)

• Anger
• Ire
• incentment
• vexation
• grudge
• pique
• exasperation
• indignation
• enmity
• displeasure
• irritation
• passion
• spleen
• gall
• resentment
• rage
• animosity
• fury
• choler
• wrath
• Boll
• bubble
• effervesce
• explode
• fume
• Burn
• Ignite
• kindle
• brand
• consume
• cauterize
• glow
• smoulder
• blaze
• flash
• cremate
• incinerate
• Violence
• Vehemence
• impetuosity
• force
• rape
• outrage
• profanation
• injustice
• infringement
• fierceness
• oppression
• Wrath
• anger

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAGE)

• To appease
• compose
• forbear
• allay
• soothe
• calm
• conciliate
• heal
• Distinguish
• honor
• decorate

Related words: (words related to RAGE)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• INDIGNATION
  1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• SPLEENY
  1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
• WRATHLESS
  Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
• WRATHILY
  In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• WRATHY
  Very angry.
• IMPETUOSITY
  1. The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence. 2. Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper. Shak.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• PIQUET
  See PICKET
• IGNITE
  To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum. (more info) 1. To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A