resentment
noun
1 resentment
A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour.
Roget 900:
resentment,
displeasure,
animosity,
anger,
wrath,
indignation;
exasperation,
bitter resentment,
wrathful indignation.
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence,
bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen,
gall;
heart-burning,
heart-swelling;
rankling.
ill humor,
bad humor,
ill temper,
bad temper;
irascibility
etc.
901;
ill blood
etc.
(hate)
898;
revenge
etc.
919.
excitement,
irritation;
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition;
towering passion,
acharnement [Fr.],
angry mood,
taking,
pet,
tiff,
passion,
fit,
tantrums.
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm,
storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation;
violence
etc.
173;
fire and fury;
vials of wrath;
gnashing of teeth,
hot blood,
high words.
scowl
etc.
895;
sulks
etc.
901.1.
[Cause of umbrage]
affront,
provocation,
offense;
indignity
etc.
(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.
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Roget 907:
malevolence;
bad intent,
bad intention;
unkindness,
diskindness†;
ill nature,
ill will,
ill blood;
bad blood;
enmity
etc.
889;
hate
etc.
898;
malignity;
malice,
malice prepense†;
maliciousness
etc.
adj.;
spite,
despite;
resentment
etc.
900.
uncharitableness
etc.
adj.;
incompassionateness
etc.
914.1†;
gall,
venom,
rancor,
rankling,
virulence,
mordacity†,
acerbity
churlishness
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
hardness of heart,
heart of stone,
obduracy;
cruelty;
cruelness
etc.
adj.;
brutality,
savagery;
ferity†,
ferocity;
barbarity,
inhumanity,
immanity†,
truculence,
ruffianism;
evil eye,
cloven foot;
torture,
vivisection.
ill turn,
bad turn;
affront
etc.
(disrespect)
929;
outrage,
atrocity;
ill usage;
intolerance,
persecution;
tender mercies [Iron.];
unkindest cut of all"
[Julius Caesar].
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Dutch: wrok, rancune, misnoegen
Polish: gorycz, pioĊun, rozgoryczenie
Moby thesaurus: Faustianism, acrimony, agitation, anger, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, antipathy, anxiety, bitterness, cold comfort, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, displeasure, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, divine discontent, dudgeon, enmity, envy, fury, grudge, hate, hostility, huff, ill humor, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, jealousy, malice, malignancy, malignity, miff, peevishness, petulance, pique, provocation, querulousness, rancor, rebelliousness, restiveness, restlessness, snuff, sourness, spite, sulkiness, umbrage, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, upset, vexation of spirit ... show more.
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