Thesaurus:enrage
THESAURUS | enrage |
English
Synonyms
- affront
- aggravate [WS]
- anger [WS]
- antagonize
- awrath
- cheese off (slang)
- cross
- embitter
- envenom
- gall
- get
- get to
- honk off
- incense
- inflame
- infuriate
- madden
- make angry
- nark (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang)
- offend [WS]
- outrage
- provoke
- put out
- rankle
- rile
- piss off
- roil
- steam
- tick off [WS]
- —
- get one's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up (racist)
- make someone see red
- make someone's blood boil
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- raise someone's shag
- rattle someone's cage
- rub the wrong way
- ruffle some feathers
Antonyms
- allay
- appease
- assuage
- beguile
- bewitch
- calm [WS]
- captivate
- charm
- comfort
- conciliate
- console
- defuse
- disarm
- enchant
- lull
- mollify
- pacify [WS]
- placate
- quiet [WS]
- relieve
- settle
- soothe
Hypernyms
- incite [WS]
See also
- anger [WS]
- angry [WS]
- annoy [WS]
- annoyed [WS]
- offend [WS]
Further reading
- “900. resentment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “835. aggravation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “enrage” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.