3.4.2.3 Angry

Use this domain for words related to feeling angry--to feel bad when someone does something wrong and to want to do something bad to them.

Louw Nida Codes: 
88X Anger, Be Indignant With
25P Offend, Be Offended
88W Resentful, Hold a Grudge Against
  • What words refer to feeling angry?
    be angry, feel angry, bristle, miffed, take offense, resent, be in a temper, pissed off, pissed, be worked up, be up in arms, in a huff, be disgusted, take something personally, take exception to, be put out, feel put out,
  • What words refer to the feeling of anger?
    anger, annoyance, bitterness, dander, fury, grudge, indignation, ire, outrage, rage, rancor, resentment, temper, wrath,
  • What words describe someone who feels angry?
    angry, aggravated, bitter, embittered, cross, exasperated, incensed, indignant, irate, irked, irritated, mad, nettled, offended, peeved, perturbed, piqued, rancorous, resentful, riled, sore, upset, vexed, wroth,
  • What words refer to feeling very angry?
    enraged, furious, furiously, incensed, infuriated, irate, livid, full of resentment, seething, be on the warpath, wrathful, have a tantrum, have a temper tantrum, boiling mad,
  • What words describe a person who gets angry often or easily?
    have a temper, irascible, bilious, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, grouch, hot tempered, hot headed, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, easily offended, quick-tempered, prim, prude, sensitive, thin-skinned, touchy,
  • What words refer to feeling angry for a long time?
    boil, burn, chafe, fume, fuss, mope, seethe, simmer, smolder, stew, sulk, sullen, bear a grudge, hold a grudge against, have something against, have it in for, hold something against someone, there is no love lost between,
  • What words refer to becoming angry?
    get angry, get mad, lose your temper, fly off the handle, blow your top, hit the roof, go crazy, go nuts, have a fit, go berserk, erupt, get your dander up,
  • What words refer to causing someone to feel angry?
    anger (v), make someone angry, make someone mad, aggravate, antagonize, chafe, cross someone, disturb, embitter, enrage, exasperate, gall, incense, infuriate, insult (v), irk, madden, needle, nettle, offend, cause offense, peeve, perturb, pique, provoke, rankle, rile, vex, make your blood boil, make you sick, get someone going, get someone's back up, wind someone up, be like a red flag to a bull,
  • What words refer to something that causes someone to feel angry?
    affront, aggravation, bitter pill to swallow, insult (n), offense, outrage, provocation, vexation,
  • What words describe something that causes someone to feel angry?
    aggravating, exasperating, galling, infuriating, insulting, irksome, maddening, objectionable, offending, offensive, vexing,
  • What words refer to acting in an angry manner?
    make a scene, huff, have a tantrum, throw a tantrum, outburst, shake your fist, stamp your foot, let off steam, rant, rave, scowl, pout,
  • What words describe something said or done in an angry manner?
    angry, furious, stormy, heated, furor, uproar, feelings run high,
  • What words refer to trying to stop someone from feeling angry?
    conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, soothe,
  • What words refer to becoming less angry?
    cool off, cool down, settle down, count to ten,
  • What words describe something that is unlikely to cause someone to feel angry?
    inoffensive, harmless, innocuous,