resentment

Roget category 900

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#900. Resentment

noun

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.

verb

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 etc. (revenge) 919.
cause anger, raise anger — affront, offend — give offense, give umbrage — anger — hurt the feelings — insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique — excite etc. 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 etc. 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.

adjective

angry, wrath, irate — ireful, wrathful — cross etc. (irascible) 901 — Achillean^† — sulky, etc. 901.1; bitter, virulent — acrimonious etc. (discourteous) etc. 895 — violent etc. 173.
warm, burning — boiling, boiling over — fuming, raging — foaming, foaming at the mouth — convulsed with rage.
offended etc. v. — waxy, acharne — wrought, worked up — indignant, hurt, sore — set against.
fierce, wild, rageful^†, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage — relentless etc. 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.

adverb

angrily etc. adj. — in the height of passion — in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment.

interjection

tantaene animis coelestibus irae! [Lat.], [Vergil], marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath! [Contr.].

phrase

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].

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