Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
919. excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker,
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dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement[Fr], angry
mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. burst, explosion,
paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence &c. 173; fire and
fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words. scowl
&c. 895; sulks &c. 901a. [Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation,
offense; indignity &c. (insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to
pick, sore subject, casus belli[Lat]; ill turn, outrage. Furies,
Eumenides. buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the
knuckles. V. resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense,
take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad
part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie[Fr]; breathe revenge,
cut up rough. fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly
into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up;
open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath. pout,
knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap;
redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite
one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ
at the bit. chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil
over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent
one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind
legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with
rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain. have a fling at;
bear malice &c. (revenge) 919. cause anger, raise anger; affront,
offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult,
discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite &c. 824;
irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick;
rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add
fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom,
embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard;
rankle &e. 919; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw,
strike on the raw. put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's
monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander,
raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make
the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash
into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the
ears. bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. Adj. angry, wrath, irate;
ireful, wrathful; cross &c. (irascible) 901; Achillean[obs3]; sulky,
&c. 901a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c. (discourteous) &c. 895;
violent &c. 173. warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging;
foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage. offended &c. v.;
waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.
fierce, wild, rageful[obs3], furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate,
rabid, savage; relentless &c. 919. flushed with anger, flushed with
rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a
rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in
arms; in high dudgeon. Adv. angrily &c. adj.; in the height of passion;
in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment. Int. tantaene animis
coelestibus irae [Lat][Vergil]! marry come up! zounds! 'sdeath! Phr.
one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up;
fervens difficili bile jecur[Lat]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing
fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis
arundo [Lat][Vergil]; "beware the fury of a patient man" [Dryden];
furor arma ministrat [Lat][Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat][Horace];
quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius[Lat]; "What, drunk with
choler?" [Henry IV].
#901. Irascibility.—N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper;
crossness &c. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability,
tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c. (contentiousness) 720.
excitability &c. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper,
irritable &c. adj. temper; genus irritabile[Lat], hot blood. ill humor
&c. (sullenness) 901a; asperity &c., churlishness &c. (discourtesy)
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