Synonyms for ire
All synonyms
Noun
1. Wrath — great anger; wrath; keen resentment
wrath, anger, fury, rage, indignation, displeasure, resentment, choler, dander, apoplexy, dudgeon
Definitions
- n. 1
Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
to raise the ire of someone
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Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- anger Susan broke the dish on purpose to show her anger.
- rage My father flew into a rage when he found that out.
- fury It was time for the Numidians to vent their fury.
- wrath Wrath doesn't control me, I control wrath instead.
By length
- 4 letters
- rage1, fury2
- 5 letters
- anger2, wrath1
- 6 letters
- dander, choler
- 7 letters
- dudgeon2
- 8 letters
- apoplexy4
- 10 letters
- resentment3
- 11 letters
- indignation4, displeasure3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fury2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
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